Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874–May 19, 1954) was an American composer of classical music. He is widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers of international significance. Ives's music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives would come to be regarded as one of the "American Originals", a composer working in a uniquely American style, with American folk tunes woven through his music, and a reaching sense of the possibilities in music.

Further reading

• Geoffrey Block, Charles Ives: a bio-bibliography (New York, Greenwood Press, 1988) — comprehensive bibliography
• J. Peter Burkholder, All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995) — a study of Charles Ives's use of borrowed musical material and modeling
• J. Peter Burkholder (editor), Charles Ives and His World (Princeton University Press, 1996) — a selection of new essays, Ives's letters and contemporary reviews
• Henry & Sydney Cowell, Charles Ives and His Music (Oxford University Press, 1969) — the first serious study of Ives's life and works by his friend and fellow composer Cowell
• John Kirkpatrick (editor), Charles E. Ives: Memos (Calder & Boyars, 1973) — a collection of Ives's writings
• James B. Sinclair, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives (Yale University Press, 1999) — comprehensive catalogue of works
• Jan Swafford, Charles Ives: A Life with Music (New York, W. W. Norton, 1996) — standard biography and examination of Ives's work
• Multitasking, an episode of The Infinite Mind public radio program (Cambridge, MA, Lichtenstein Creative Media, 2005), a report on Charles Ives and his integration of multitasking into his compositions.