Person · American composer
Charles Ives
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1874–1954
Origin
United States
Biography
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 his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, he came to be regarded as an "American original". He 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, aleatory 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.
Discography
Symphony no. 2 / Decoration Day from “Holidays” Symphony/ Variations on “America”
Symphony no. 4 / Central Park in the Dark
Symphony No.4 - Central Park In The Dark
Three Places In New England / Symphony No. 3
Variations Sur "America" Et Six Autres Compositeurs Américains Pour Orgue
Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-60"
Concord-Sonate
Five Violin Sonatas
Holidays & Central Park In The Dark
Symphony No. 2
Sonate für Klavier Nr. 1
Sonate Für Klavier Nr. 1
Songs
Piano Pieces
Piano Pieces
Symphony No. 3 / Orchestral Set No. 2
Symphony No. 3 / Orchestral Set No. 2
Symphony no. 4
Ives: Songs / Crumb: Apparition
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 / The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives The Visionary: Piano, Chamber, And Vocal Works
Holidays Symphony / The Unanswered Question / Central Park in the Dark
Piano Sonata no. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860"
Songs
Symphony no. 4 / Three Places in New England / Central Park in the Dark
Wolf, Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Ives, Weill
Concord Sonata / Three-Page Sonata / Four Transcriptions from Emerson
Sonata No. 2 ( "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860") - Sonata
Concord Sonata
Symphony no. 2 / Central Park in the Dark / The Unanswered Question / Tone Roads no. 1 / Hymn for Strings / Hallowe’en / The Gong on the Hook and Ladder
Symphony No. 2 • Central Park In The Dark • The Unanswered Question • Tone Roads No. 1 • Hymn For Strings • Hallowe'en • The Gong On The Hook And Ladder
The Great Sentimental Age
The Orchestral Music Of Charles Ives
The String Quartets
American Chamber Music
Charles Ives: Piano Sonata no. 2 / Aaron Copland: Piano Sonata
Copland: Old American Songs / Ives: Songs
Hanson Conducts Ives, Schuman, Mennin
Lieder
Symphonies nos. 1 & 4
Symphonies nos. 2 & 3
Symphony no. 4 / Robert Browning Overture / Songs
Symphony No. 4, Robert Browning Overture, Songs: The Majority, They Are There!, An Election, Lincoln The Great Commoner
American Originals (String Quartets)
Brahms: Haydn Variations / Reger: Mozart Variations / Ives/Schuman: Variations on America
Ives: Sonata no. 2 ("Concord, Mass., 1840-1860") / Wright: Sonata
Ives: String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 / Barber: String Quartet
Ives: Symphony no. 1 / Barber: Three Essays for Orchestra
Oeuvres Pour Piano
Organ Music From The U.S.A.
Piano Sonata no. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-60"
Reicha: Commemoration Symphony / McTee: Circuits / Gillingham: Heroes Lost and Fallen / Ives: Old Home Days / Gould: Symphony no. 4
Symphonies No. 2 & No. 3 • Central Park In The Dark
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 / Central Park in the Dark
Symphony No. 1 / Three Essays For Orchestra
Symphony no. 3 / The Unanswered Question / Three Places in New England
Symphony No. 3 • Three Places In New England • The Unanswered Question
The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Volume 1
The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Volume 2
The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Volume 3
Credits
Four Sonatas
Symphonies nos. 1 & 4 / Central Park in the Dark
Symphonies nos. 2 & 3 / General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
Symphonies nos. 3 & 4 / Halowe’en
Piano Sonata no. 2 “Concord” / Three Quarter‐Tone Pieces
À la gloire de Dieu
Symphonies nos. 1 & 4
Symphonies nos. 2 & 3
Black Angels
Holidays Symphony / The Unanswered Question / Central Park in the Dark
Symphony no. 4
Ives: Trio / Copland: Vitebsk / Bloch: Three Nocturnes
4 American Landscapes: Dance In The Place Congo / Quiet City / Housatonic / Ancient Desert Drone
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring - Charles Ives: Three Places In New England
Aaron Copland / Applachian Spring ; Charles Ives / Three Places In New England
Adagio For Strings / Symphony No. 3 / Quiet City / Hymn And Fuguing Tune No. 10 / A Rumor
Americana
American Elegies
American Masterpieces
American Originals (String Quartets)
American Scenes · American Poets
An American Journey
Apparition / Songs
A Set Of Pieces
A Tribute
Bartók, Ives, Milhaud, Skalkottas
Boston Musica Viva Plays
Calcium Light Night
Charles Ives Chamber Music
Charles Ives Songs: Volume 2: 1915 To 1929
Charles Ives The Visionary: Piano, Chamber, And Vocal Works
Complete Chamber Music Vol. I
Complete Symphonies
Complete Works For Solo Piano
Complete Works For Violin And Piano
Concerto For Wind Quintet And Orchestra / Variations On "America" / Umbrian Scene
"Concord" Sonata
Concord Sonata · Songs
Concord Sonata / Three Places In New England / Central Park In The Dark
Concord-Sonate
Danse Macabre
Die Perlen Der Kali
Emerson Concerto • Symphony No. 1
Enigma Variations / Symphony No. 1
Eric Satie / Charles Ives / John Cage
Five Violin Sonatas
Holidays & Central Park In The Dark
Holidays Symphony
Holidays Symphony
Holidays Symphony
Holidays Symphony: II, III And IV
Intersections [1985-2005]
Ives Plays Ives
Ives Symphony No. 2
Ives - Violin Sonata No. 1 / Porter - Violin Sonata No. 2
Live In Concert
Marni Nixon Sings Ives Goehr Schurmann
Mountain Songs (A Cycle Of American Folk Music)
Music For A Time Of War
Music For Chorus