Carl Ruggles
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American composer (1876-1971)
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Charles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles (March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) was an American composer of the American Five group. He wrote finely-crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based on a non-serial technique of avoiding repeating a pitch class until a generally fixed number such as eight pitch classes intervened. He wrote painstakingly slowly so his output is quite small. <a href="https://www
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carl
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Marion
- Place of death
- Bennington
- Occupation
- painter
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- painting
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- violin
- Image
- Ruggles 1911.jpg
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- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- date of birth
- 1876-03-11
- date of death
- 1971-10-24
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
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