CHARLES IVES

Hailey Buckley
Aug 31, 2018 · 5 min read

Composers, in the last two hundred years, have often found it hard to live off the proceeds of their art: so they have had to supplement their income by teaching music, or playing in an orchestra, or doing work in some non-musical occupation.

It was not always thus. Before 1800, approximately, a talented composer could earn a reasonable livelihood as tenured employee of Church or State. Those two great patrons were responsible for much of…

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"Alphabeticon" is a series of small books about men and women, past and present, who have been important in various fields of human endeavour, such as the arts and sciences, politics, religion, sport, and so on. Each volume contains twenty-six chapters; alphabetically arranged.

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