Charles Ives
Charles Ives was born into a family of musicians. His father, a military
conductor and excellent teacher, taught him organ, counterpoint and a wide
variety of instruments and melodies. He is considered the initiator of many of
the processes that foreshadow contemporary music, particularly in the fields of
polytonality, atonality and polyrhythm. A graduate of Yale University, he made
his fortune in insurance (the company he founded still exists today). Married to
the lovely Harmony Twichell, he lived in New York and spent his weekends in
Connecticut, still composing, but never giv...
