Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) was the epitome of the New England
iconoclast. A composer of the American avant-garde movement, he
wrote, in a very concise and dissonant style, a small body of truly
unique musical works. He lived to be 95, composing to the very end
of his life, but left behind a mere eight sanctioned works which he
had rewritten and refined over decades. In the 1920s, he was at the
focal point of ultra-modern music-making. Since there is currently
a renewed interest in his work, this bio-bibliography is timely and
needed, and of interest to scholars, students, and performers.
During the 1920s, had Edgard Varese or Charles Ives been asked
to name America's greatest living composer, the response would have
been Carl Ruggles. Forty years later, such eminent experts on
American music as Nicolas Slonimsky, Virgil Thomson, and Aaron
Copland would each describe Ruggles as our most technically refined
composer. Ruggles, with Varese and Ives, was the standard-bearer of
the atonal movement in this century's third decade. With the rise
of American realism, he slipped out of the public eye. Recent years
have seen a resurgence of performances of his works and research on
his music; consequently, there is a need for this timely
bio-bibliography.
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