num_pages: 544
description: An illuminating portrait of a man whose innovative works profoundly influenced the course of twentieth-century American classical music. Jan Swafford's colorful biography first unfolds in Ives's Connecticut hometown of Danbury, then follows Ives to Yale and on to his years in New York, where he began his double career as composer and insurance executive. The Charles Ives that emerges from Swafford's story is a precocious, well-trained musician, a brilliant if mercurial thinker about art and life, and an experimenter in the spirit of Edison and the Wright brothers.
language: English
title: Charles Ives: A Life with Music
titlecomplete: Charles Ives: A Life with Music
genres: Biography, Classical Music, History, Music, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 133
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company