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
The Unanswered Question
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The Unanswered Question is a musical work by American composer Charles Ives. Originally paired with Central Park in the Dark as Two Contemplations in 1908, The Unanswered Question was revised by Ives
Charles Ives
…celebrating the Fourth of July. He composed four numbered symphonies as well as a number of works with the word 'Symphony' in their titles, as well as The Unanswered Question (1908), written for the unusual combination of trumpet, four flutes, and string quartet. The Unanswered Question was influenced by the New England…
Charles Ives in 1913
Ives may have been quoting the line "Thou art the unanswered question" from Emerson's 1847 poem "The Sphinx".