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Charles Ives

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Profession
Composer
Died
May 19, 1954
Zodiac
Libra
Born in
Danbury CT
About
Modernist composer who was an American original, pioneering eclectic and experimental music, polytonality, and tone clusters. Some historians credit him with composing the 20th century's first radical musical work "Central Park in the Dark" in 1906.
Family
His father, George Ives, served as a U.S. Army bandleader during the American Civil War. He married Harmony Twitchell in 1908.

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