Charles Ives
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Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. His music was largely
Portrait c. 1947
Charles Ives, left, captain of the baseball team and pitcher for Hopkins Grammar School, aged 18 (c. 1893)
Ives's graduation portrait from Yale University, c. June 1898
Charles Ives House in Danbury, Connecticut
Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives)
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The Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60 is a piano sonata by Charles Ives. It is one of the composer's best-known and most highly regarded pieces. A typical performance of the piece lasts arou
Charles Ives
…retired from his insurance business. Although he had more time to devote to music, he was unable to write any new music. During the 1940s, he revised his Concord Sonata, publishing it in 1947 (an earlier version of the sonata and the accompanying prose volume, Essays Before a Sonata were privately printed in 1920…
Charles Ives c. 1913
Essays Before a Sonata, written by Ives and published in 1920 to explain the sonata to listeners