NameHarmony Twichell ![](../img/i_tree.png)
Birth4 Jun 1876, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut
Death4 Apr 1969, Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
Charles Edward Ives [aka: Charles Ives] was a famous American composer.
He was a distant cousin of Lucy E. Ives, wife of my gg uncle, Samuel Leoreard “Sam” Brown [ccs]
see:
Charles Ives:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12306949/person/1212872152Lucy Ives:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12306949/person/263537095------------
Charles Ives
Background information
Birth name: Charles Edward Ives
Born: October 20, 1874
Origin: Danbury,
ConnecticutDied: May 19, 1954 (aged 79)
Occupations: composer,
insurance agent
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American
modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original". Ives combined the American popular and
church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of
experimental music, with
musical techniques including
polytonality,
polyrhythm,
tone clusters,
aleatoric elements, and
quarter tones,
foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century.
Sources of Ives' tonal imagery are
hymn tunes and
traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of
Stephen Foster.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives