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Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the "ultramoderns".
13 ott 2017 · The Pioneering Modernist Who Wrote an Audacious String Quartet - The New York Times. Ruth Crawford Seeger created pathbreaking music. But her family’s folk revival legacy has overshadowed her...
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is widely recognized both as the most important American woman composer of the Twentieth Century, and as a major figure in the study and preservation of American folk music.
30 apr 2024 · Ruth Crawford Seeger was a U.S. composer. She studied piano as a child and was self-taught as a composer until she entered the American Conservatory. After early works influenced by Alexander Scriabin, she wrote several astonishing serial pieces, including her String Quartet (1931).
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Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest modernist works of the genre". It was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation and written in the spring of 1931, during Crawford's time in Berlin. It was first published in the New Music Edition in January 1941.
Composer Ruth Crawford Seeger was a pivotal figure in American modernist music as well as a leading ethnomusicologist. Born in East Liverpool, Ohio, in 1901, Ruth Crawford learned to play piano from her mother. In 1921 she moved to Chicago to pursue her training at the American Conservatory of Music, where she studied musical composition under ...
Ultra-Modern composer, traditional music collector, political activist and mother to a famous family of folk-song revivalists, Ruth Crawford Seeger led an emblematic life as a woman and an...
