1987/01/01 by Maynard Solomon · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Art #Art history #Autograph #Denial #George (robot) #History #Idealization #Modernism (music) #Music History and Culture #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Order (exchange) #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Theater, Performance, and Music History
paper · doi:10.2307/831676
openalex publication_date 1987/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Ives's autobiographical writings raise issues of veracity, including those bearing on his posthumous idealization of his relationship to his father, George Ives, and his crediting of his father with having anticipated many procedures and techniques of twentieth-century modernism. The magnification of his father's influence is intertwined with a denial of other musical influences as well as with an obsessive concern over issues of priority. An examination of Ives's autographs suggests that he retrospectively sought to predate numerous works, both as to their commencement and completion. A revised chronology of Ives's creative evolution would appear to be in order.