In 1921, Charles E. Ives, a wealthy co-proprietor of the New York life-insurance firm Ives & Myrick, launched a bid to rebrand himself as an American Beethoven. He sent copies of his Second Piano ...

In the ramshackle, ragtime-inflected middle movement of the Violin Sonata No. 3 you can hear Ives tinkering with the music, stopping and starting as if he’s trying out ideas on the spot.

Cage: The Seasons (with readings of the writings of John Cage) (1947, 15) Ives: Violin Sonata No. 4 ‘Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting’ (1916, 9) Feldman… ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Before the year is out, there is just time to mark the 150th anniversary of American maverick Charles Ives ...

Charles Ives at 150: Jeremy Denk plays the piano worksStrings attached The inclusion of the four violin sonatas, played in reverse order as is the wont of Denk and his colleague, violinist Stefan ...

A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 21, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: 150 Years On, Charles Ives Still Gets Us.