Charles Ives

Birth Date

10/20/1874 (Age 79)

Birth Place

Danbury, Connecticut, USA

Death Date

5/19/1954

Departments

Sound

Biography

Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. Sources of Ives' tonal imagery included hymn tunes and traditional songs; he also incorporated melodies of the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.