What is Charles Ives?
{{Infobox_Person | name = Charles Ives | residence = | other_names = | image = CharlesEdwardIves1913.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Charles Ives around the year 1913 | birth_name = Charles Edward Ives | birth_date = {{birth date|1874|10|20}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1954|5|19|1874|10|20}} | birth_place = [[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]], [[Connecticut]] | death_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] | death_cause = | known = | title = | salary = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relations = | website = | footnotes = | employer = | height = | weight = }} '''Charles Edward Ives''' (October 30, 1874 &ndash; May 19, 1954) was an [[Americans|American]] [[composer]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Associate Professor of Composition Receives Charles Ives Fellowship|url=https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/about/news/2024/fang_man_charles_ives_felllowship.php|access-date=2024-03-07|website=School of Music|language=en}}</ref> He [[wikt:experiment|experimented]] with new ways of composing which many people did not understand at the time. These became more widely used later in the century. He used [[dissonance|dissonant]] (harsh) sounding [[interval (music)|intervals]] and techniques such as [[polytonality]] (playing in several keys at once), polyrhythms (several rhythms at once) and polytextures (several [[texture]]s at once). Very few people listened to his music at the time he was writing it. Only much later did musicians start to [[wikt:realize|realize]] the importance of his work. Ives earned his living as an [[insurance]] agent. He composed in his spare time. ==Life== ===Early years==