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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".
28 mar 2017 · 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.
29 giu 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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13 ott 2017 · Ruth Crawford Seeger created pathbreaking music. But her family’s folk revival legacy has overshadowed her avant-garde compositions.
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.
By 1930, Ruth Crawford was a force to be reckoned with in American modernism. Stylistically her work stood out in its uncompromising use of dissonance, contrapuntal ostinati, striking choice of texts and tidy formal construction.
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...