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Charles Ives biography

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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Danbury, Connecticut
  • PLACE OF DEATH: New York City
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Charles Ives is a significant American composer, known for a number of innovations that anticipated most of the later musical developments of the 20th century.

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Charles Ives is a significant American composer, known for a number of innovations that anticipated most of the later musical developments of the 20th century. His father was a bandleader and was his early teacher. Before attending Yale, Ives had composed "Song for the Harvest Season." He composed almost all of his music before he founded his New York City insurance firm Ives & Myrick in 1916.

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