Charles Ives: A Life in Music
Jan Swafford
#1834 of 3,809 books · #627 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1996).
A biography of the American composer examines how his music was shaped by his Yankee background, the influence of his father, and his Yale education.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- ISBN-13
- 9780393038934
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyShortlistedMajor(1996)
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