Charles Ives

Known for: Sound / Music
Date of birth: 1874. October 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, patr...