Charles Ives

United States
October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954

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Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, he came to be regarded as an "American original". He 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, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatory elements, and quarter tones,[6] foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century.

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Charles Ives top songs

1	Zad
2	Three Improvisations: No. 3
3	Violin Sonata No. 4, "Children's Day At the Camp Meeting": III. Allegro
4	Unidentified

Charles Ives quotes

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.