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Charles Ives

Charles Ives

Birthday: 1874-10-20 | Place of Birth: Danbury, Connecticut, USA

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.

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1979
Are My Ears on Wrong?: A Profile of Charles Ives

as    Self - Subject (archive footage)