
Charles Ives
Personal Info
Known For Sound
Gender Male
Birthday 1874-10-20
Deathday 1954-05-19 (79 years old)
Place of Birth Danbury, Connecticut, USA
Charles Ives
Biography
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. Sources of Ives' tonal imagery included hymn tunes and traditional songs; he also incorporated melodies of the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.
Known For
Sound
2015
Valley of Love
as Original Music Composer
1979
1977
The Red Tapes
as Music
1977
Charles Ives: A Good Dissonance Like a Man
as Original Music Composer
1971
Ach Viola
as Music
Actor
1979
Are My Ears on Wrong?: A Profile of Charles Ives
as Self - Subject (archive footage)