Elliott Carter
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Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was an American modernist composer who was one of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century. He combined elements of European modernism and American "
Carter in the 2000s
Elliott Carter in 1917
Elliott Carter with Hans Rosbaud at the Donaueschingen Festival in 1957
Elliott Carter in 2007
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
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…Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei. Carter was born in New York City. He developed an interest in modern music in the 1920s. He was later introduced to Charles Ives, and he soon came to appreciate the American ultra-modernists. After studying at Harvard University with Edward Burlingame Hill, Gustav Holst and Walter…
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