jan 1, 1939 - Concord Sonata

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a piano sonata by Charles Ives. It is one of the composer's best-known and most highly regarded pieces.

Terms of Reception
1. Ives suffered health problems in 1918 that plagued him for years and effectively ended
his creative life, but at the same time his music began to be heard.
2. The first public performance of the Concord Sonata in 1939 received positive reviews.
3. That Ives composed so Modern so early could lead critics to devalue his music
aesthetically.
a. The composer Elliott Carter identified Ives as a Great Anticipator rather than a Great Emancipator.

“Manner” and “Substance”: The Concord Sonata
1. The idea of dating exactly when Ives was “Modern” is foreign to Ives’s own ideas
about manner versus substance.
2. The Concord Sonata brings to mind Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony; the opening motive pervades the composition.
3. Ives provided Essays before a Sonata.

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