Charles Ives Quotes

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A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousnes...

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But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to h...

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The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

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In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

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Born: 1874-10-20

Died: 1954-05-19

Charles Ives (20 October 1874 – 19 May 1954) was an American classical composer, and also co-founder of the insurance firm Ives & Myrick. While he composed music for most of his life, he did so as an avocation: he made his living entirely as an executive for his insurance firm, writing a book Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax, which was highly regarded. His music drew on American hymn tunes, folk songs, and patriotic songs, in addition to music of the European tradition, and he was most famous for the dissonant simultaneities he produced by novel combination of these elements.More

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