Charles Ives: A Life with Music

About this book

An illuminating portrait of a man whose innovative works profoundly influenced the course of twentieth-century American classical music. Jan Swafford's colorful biography first unfolds in Ives's Connecticut hometown of Danbury, then follows Ives to Yale and on to his years in New York, where he began his double career as composer and insurance executive. The Charles Ives that emerges from Swafford's story is a precocious, well-trained musician, a brilliant if mercurial thinker about art and life, and an experimenter in the spirit of Edison and the Wright brothers.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780393317190

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published

January 1, 1998

Pages

544

Weight

26.6 oz

Subject

Biography & Autobiography