Charles Edward Ives
(1874-1954)
Charles’ father, George, was also a musician and he taught music to his son. As a boy, Charles listened to his father’s band play in the Danbury town square. His father helped him experiment with different kinds of music.
Charles' music was very loud and strange to many people and it was not what they were used to hearing. His music was mostly ignored while he was alive, but when he was 73, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Third Symphony. He died in 1954 in New York City.
