COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY – PREPARATION 10
(F-08)
For 3 December
This week’s topic is the
reception of Charles Ives’s works and the course of critical opinion about his
music. Please read:
Vivian Perlis, Charles
Ives Remembered, 131-145 (Elliott Carter), 147-155 (Nicholas Slonimsky);
198-206 (Lou Harrison)
Henry and
Frank Rossiter, Charles
Ives and his
Jan Swafford, Charles
Ives – A Life with Music, 325-336, 376-392; 431-434.
Write a paragraph about the
following question: Is the reception of
a composer’s works an important part of his biography? You can discuss Mozart and Schumann, if you
like, as well as Ives.