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Composers |
| Name of the author: |
IVES, CHARLES EDUARD |
| Year of Birth: |
1874 |
| Year of death: |
1954 |
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Name: Ives, Charles (Pseudonyme): *: 1874 in: Danbury, Connecticut +: 1954 in: New York
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Charles Ives führte ein außergewöhnliches Leben. Obwohl seine Begabung zur Musik schon recht früh erkannt wurde, er war bereits im Alter von 13 Jahren ein Kirchenorganist, schlug er neben der musikalischen Richtung, einen Beruf ein, den er aus Existenzgründen vorzog. Er war mit seiner Kompositionstechnik, die er an der "Yale University" unter Horatio Parker entwickelte, der Zeit weit voraus. Mit seiner Polytonalität, Atonalität waren seine Ragtimes, patriotischen Melodien und Hymnen für diese Zeit sehr gewagt. Charles Ives's Werke erreichten erst zu Ende seines Lebens Anerkennung. Zum Beispiel wurde seine "Symphony No. 3", die er bereits 1911 schrieb, erst 1947 aufgeführt. Dann erst wurde erkannt, daß es eine außergewöhnliche Leistung war und mit dem Pulitzer Preis ausgezeichnet. Er wird heute als wirklich erster amerikanischer Komponist des 20. Jahrhunderts angesehen und in seinen Werken klingt immer ein wenig Menschlichkeit durch, die ihn Zeit seines Lebens begleitet hatte.
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Charles Ives lived in New England all of his life. His father, George, a famous Civil War bandmaster, was Charles' first and most influential teacher. From his father, Charles learned both traditional and unorthodox ways of creating and looking at music. Although Charles was an extremely prolific composer, he was virtually unknown during his lifetime for musical accomplishments. Instead, he was quite famous for his pioneering work in the insurance industry. Ives' own theories and publications about life insurance were used by other insurance firms for many years. His business successes allowed Charles to publish his compositions, which were, b and large, considered unperformable due to their difficulty. His experiments in polytonality, sound masses, microtonality, and new formal structures were at least twenty years ahead of their time; it could be said that he foreshadowed Copland, Schuman, Cowell, and Berio in these techniques. Typical of the musical "cognoscenti's" tardiness in finding his music, his "Symphony #3" received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, although it was composed at least twenty years prior. Ives disliked and never quite understood all the attention given his music, but he had a fierce belief in composing from recollections and surrounding events, regardless of what anyone else thought. Ives is considered today a very individualistic composer of visionary genius.
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