Charles Ives: A Life with Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393317190)

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.

Author: Jan Swafford
ISBN-10: 0393317196
ISBN-13: 9780393317190
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.14w x 1.42d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee