He had a remarkably successful career in insurance, and continued to be a prolific composer until he suffered another of several heart attacks in 1918, after which he composed very little, writing his very last piece, the song Sunrise, in August 1926. After marrying Harmony Twitchell in 1908, they moved into their own apartment in New York.
Following his recovery from the 1907 attack, Ives entered into one of the most creative periods of his life as a composer. These attacks may have been psychological in origin rather than physical. In 1907, Ives suffered the first of several "heart attacks" (as he and his family called them) that he had through out his lifetime. In his spare time he composed music and, until his marriage, worked as an organist in Danbury and New Haven as well as Bloomfield, New Jersey and New York City. As a result of this he achieved considerable fame in the insurance industry of his time, with many of his business peers surprised to learn that he was also a composer. His Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax, published in 1918, was well-received. During his career as an insurance executive, Ives devised creative ways to structure life-insurance packages for people of means, which laid the foundation of the modern practice of estate planning. In 1907, upon the failure of Raymond & Co., he and his friend Julian Myrick formed their own insurance agency Ives & Co., which later became Ives & Myrick, where he remained until he retired. Raymond & Co., where he stayed until 1906. In 1899 he moved to employment with the insurance agency Charles H. 1 as his senior thesis under Parker's supervision.Ĭharles Ives continued his work as a church organist until May 1902. His works Calcium Light Night and Yale-Princeton Football Game show the influence of college and sports on Ives' composition. Murphy, his coach, once remarked that it was a crying shame that Charles Ives spent so much time at music as otherwise he could have been a champion sprinter. He enjoyed sports at Yale and played on the varsity football team. On NovemCharles's father died, a crushing blow to the young composer, but to a large degree Ives continued the musical experimentation he had begun with George Ives.Īt Yale College Charles Ives was a prominent figure he was a member of HeBoule, Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter) and Wolf's Head Society, and sat as chairman of the Ivy Committee. Here he composed in a choral style similar to his mentor, writing church music and even an 1896 campaign song for William McKinley. In September 1894, Ives entered Yale University, studying under Horatio Parker. Ives moved to New Haven in 1893, enrolling in the Hopkins School where he captained the baseball team. Ives became a church organist at the age of 14 and wrote various hymns and songs for church services, including his Variations on 'America'. It was from his father that Charles Ives also learned the music of Stephen Foster. George Ives's unique music lessons were also a strong influence on Charles George Ives took an open-minded approach to musical theory, encouraging his son to experiment in bitonal and polytonal harmonizations. A strong influence of Charles's may have been sitting in the Danbury town square, listening to his father's marching band and other bands on other sides of the square simultaneously.
Army bandleader in the American Civil War, and his wife Mary Parmelee.
Sources of Charles Ives’s tonal imagery are hymn tunes and traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.Ĭharles Ives was the son of George Ives, a U.S. Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones, thus foreshadowing virtually every major musical innovation of the 20 th century. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original". Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance. Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer.
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