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1894: |
Date on manuscript: song A Christmas Carol "before
1898"; letter: "around 1894" |
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1896: |
First publication: song A Scotch Lullaby, New Haven:
Yale Courant 33/5 (Dec, Third Week) |
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1897: |
Date on manuscript: song No More |
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1901: |
choral Processional: Let There Be Light dedicated to
Central Presbyterian Church, New York City |
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1901: |
Premiere: lost organ Piece for Communion Service (Charles
Ives, org), at Central Presbyterian Church. While at Central Presbyterian
Church, Ives composed this and several organ works that went into his Symphony
No. 3: The Camp Meeting and conducted the premiere of his cantata The
Celestial Country. |
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1909: |
Date on manuscript: song A Farewell to Land, sketch—"70
W. 11" [New York City] |
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1924: |
Edith Ives writes words and tune of her song Christmas
Carol which was then set by Ives himself. |
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1932: |
First publication: Seven Songs. Cos Cob Press. Aaron
Copland selected these seven songs from Ives’s 114 Songs and accompanied
at the piano the premiere at Saratoga Springs, NY (1 May 1932) with baritone
Herbert Linscott: Charlie Rutlage, Evening, The Indians,
Maple Leaves, The See’r, Serenity, and Walking. |
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1962: |
First recording: piano Three-Page Sonata (Luise Vosgerchian;
issued in 1963 by Cambridge Records); song Nov. 2, 1920 (An Election)
and Religion (Corinne Curry [S] and Luise Vosgerchian [pf]; issued
in 1963 by Cambridge) |
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Dec 1
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1897: |
Premiere: choral The Bells of Yale (Yale Glee Club)
at Hoyt’s Opera House, South Norwalk, Conn. |
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1950: |
First recording: Sonata No. 1 for Piano (William Masselos
[pf], for Columbia Records, issued 1953) |
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1975: |
First recording: song Weil’ auf mir [German text] (Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau [Bar] and Michael Ponti [pf]; issued in 1976 by Deutsche
Grammophon) |
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Dec 2
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1991: |
First recording: choral The Bells of Yale (Henry Herford
[Bar], men’s voices and members of Ensemble Modern, cond. by Ingo Metzmacher;
issued in 1992 by EMI Classics) |
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Dec 5
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1934: |
First recording: songs General William Booth and God
Bless and Keep Thee (Radiana Pazmor [S] and Genevieve Pitot [pf], for
New Music Quarterly Recordings, issued in 1935) |
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Dec 6
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1949: |
First publication: Tone Roads No. 1, New York: Peer
International |
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1962: |
Premiere: Chromâtimelôdtune [Schuller realization]
and Set No. 3 (by a pick-up chamber orchestra, cond. by Gunther Schuller),
at Carnegie Recital Hall, New York City |
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Dec 7
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1931: |
Premiere: "In the Night" [mvt. iii of Set for Theatre Orchestra]
(Saint Paul Chamber Music Society ensemble, cond. by John J. Becker), at
St. Thomas College Auditorium, St. Paul, Minn. |
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1932: |
Premiere: song The New River (Mary Bell [S] and Henry
Cowell [pf]), at Musikhalle, Kleiner Saal, Hamburg, Germany |
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Dec 10
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1822: |
Birth of César Franck at Liége, France. Ives
admired the honest religiosity of Franck’s music and quoted his Symphony
in D Minor in three related songs: The Song of the Dead, The Ending
Year, and The Waiting Soul. |
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1908: |
Birth of pianist (and composer) Olivier Messiaen at Avignon,
France. Messiaen was the accompanist for the world premiere in Paris of
a group of Ives’s songs, 5 March 1936, with singer Victor Prahl: The
Innate, Majority, Paracelsus, Requiem, and Resolution. |
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1913: |
Birth of conductor (and composer) Morton Gould at New York
City. Gould and the Chicago Symphony made the first recordings of Symphony
No. 1 and Orchestral Set No. 2 (also premiere of the latter). |
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1947: |
First publications: piano Study No. 22 and "Three Protests"
[from Varied Air and Variations], in New Music |
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1974: |
First recording: Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in
New England [Sinclair version for large orchestra] (Philadelphia Orchestra,
cond. by Eugene Ormandy; issued in 1976 by RCA) |
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1978: |
Premiere: Sonata No. 5 for Violin and Piano [Washington’s
Birthday, Decoration Day, and Thanksgiving in John Kirkpatrick’s
reconstruction] (Daniel Stepner [vn], John Kirkpatrick [pf]), in the Music
Building, State University of New York, College at Purchase, Purchase, NY |
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Dec 12
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1895: |
Ives plays his interlude on BETHANY [Interludes
for Hymns, no. 2], at Center Church, New Haven, Conn. Ives used BETHANY
prominently in his song Down East. |
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1901: |
Premiere: lost organ Prelude [II] (Charles Ives, org),
at Central Presbyterian Church (developed into mvt. i of Symphony No.
3) |
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1928: |
Premiere: piano Thoreau [mvt. iv of Sonata No. 2
for Piano: Concord, Mass.] (Clifton Furness [pf]), at Hartford, Conn. |
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1797: |
Birth of poet Heinrich Heine at Düsseldorf, Germany.
Ives used Heine poems for songs Du bist wie eine Blume, Frühlingslied,
Gruss, Ich grolle nicht, Die Lotosblume, and two versions
of My Native Land. |
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Dec 14
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1902: |
Date on manuscript: song Her Eyes "put in [song] Mirage" |
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Dec 15
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1912: |
Date on manuscript: choral Matthew Arnold Overture,
sketch —"7 night job [completed]!" The overture is used, in part, in the
song West London. |
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Dec 16
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1770: |
Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven at Bonn, Germany. Ives greatly
admired Beethoven’s music, creativity and strength. Among the several Beethoven
pieces from which Ives borrowed, most important is Symphony No. 5 (Emerson
Overture/Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Sonata No. 2 for Piano:
Concord, Mass., piano Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots,
The Celestial Railroad, and Four Transcriptions from "Emerson"). |
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1901: |
Premiere: lost Largo for Violin and Organ (William
Haesche [vn] and Charles Ives [org]), at Central Presbyterian Church, New
York City (which went into Largo for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano) |
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1914: |
Date on manuscript: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano
"ended" |
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1963: |
Premiere: Tone Roads No. 3 and Scherzo: Over the
Pavements (Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble, cond. by James Tenney), at the
New School Auditorium, New York City |
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1908: |
Date on manuscript: Robert Browning Overture, sketch
of mm. 107–140—"70 W. 11" |
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1987: |
First recording: songs The All-Enduring and Song
(Jan DeGaetani [Mez] and Gilbert Kalish [pf]; issued in 1988 by Nonesuch
Records) |
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Winter solstice (annual): song/choral December |
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1978: |
First recording: Sonata No. 5 for Violin and Piano
[Washington’s Birthday, Decoration Day, Thanksgiving in the Kirkpatrick
reconstruction] (Daniel Stepner [vn] with John Kirkpatrick [pf]; issued
in 1982 by Music Masters) |
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1947: |
Birth of Ives editor, conductor, and band arranger Kenneth
Singleton. Singleton is the editor for current or forthcoming publications
of Symphony No. 3: The Camp Meeting, Symphony No. 4/iii, Postlude
in F, Chromâtimelôdtune, Gyp the Blood or Hearst!?
[mvt. ii of Set No. 2], chamber ens Mists, Evening,
Remembrance, An Old Song Deranged, Set for Theatre Orchestra,
March No. 2, with "Son of a Gambolier", March No. 3, with "My
Old Kentucky Home", and choral The Bells of Yale, The Boys
in Blue, and A Song of Mory’s. |
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1642: |
Birth of naturalist philosopher Sir Isaac Newton near Grantham,
England. Ives’s Universe Symphony contemplates the universe as Newton
understood it and goes on to contemplate the expanding universe of Edwin
Hubble. |
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1886: |
Premiere: piano Minuetto, Op. 4 (Charles E. Ives? [pf]),
location not specified. The earliest performable works of Ives are Holiday
Quickstep and song Slow March (both of 1887). |
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1887: |
Date on manuscript: Holiday Quickstep—[started] "Xmas
'87" |
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1888: |
Holiday Quickstep played at Methodist Sunday School
program |
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1898: |
Premiere: "Adeste Fideles" in an Organ Prelude (Charles
Ives, org), at First Presbyterian Church, Bloomfield, New Jersey |
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1903: |
Date on manuscript: Overture and March "1776" score-sketch
[begun], "Danbury" |
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Christmas (annual): Symphony No. 4, mvt. i; Sonata
No. 1 for Violin and Piano, mvt. iii; "Adeste Fideles" in an Organ
Prelude; songs A Christmas Carol, Christmas Carol (Edith Ives’s),
and Watchman |
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1931: |
Premiere: Decoration Day [mvt. ii of "Holidays Symphony"]
(Orquesta Filarmónica de la Habana, cond. by Amadeo Roldán),
at Teatro Nacional, Havana |
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1945: |
Ives is elected to membership in the National Institute of
Arts and Letters (along with William Schuman). |
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1949: |
Premiere: songs Chanson de Florian, Lincoln, the
Great Commoner, and The Rainbow (So May It Be!) (Harry Wayne
[Bar] and Esther Lundell [pf]), at McMillin Theatre, Columbia University,
New York City |
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1897: |
Date on manuscript: Symphony No. 1/iv, score-sketch
[finished] |
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1914 |
Date on manuscript: The Masses (Majority), date on
p. 9 of score, "27 W. 11 [New York City" |
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Dec 29
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1953: |
First publication: The Unanswered Question, New York:
Southern Music Publishing Company |
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Dec 30
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1865: |
Birth of poet Rudyard Kipling at Bombay, India. Ives used
Kipling poems in a group of songs: The Love Song of Har Dyal, The
Only Son, The Song of the Dead, Tarrant Moss, and Tolerance. |
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1949: |
First publication:"Adeste Fideles" in an Organ Prelude
and Variations on "America", together, New York: Music Press |
