Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 ? May 19, 1954) was an American composer of modernist classical music. He is widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers of international significance. Ives' 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 an "American Original";See, for example, "Charles Ives, an American Original", Hi-fi Review, September 1964. p. 42; Burkholter (p. xi) contests the widespread exaggeration of this to the position that Ives owed nothing to Europe. 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, tone clusters, and quarter tones.Burkholder, p.4Sources of Charles Ives? tonal imagery are hymn tunes and tr

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