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Carl Ruggles
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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. Famous for his prickly personality, Ruggles was nonetheless friends with Henry Cowell, Edgard Varèse, Charles Ives, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Charles Seeger. His students include James Tenney and Merton Brown. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas has championed Ruggles' music, recording the complete works with the Buffalo Philharmonic and occasionally performing Sun-Treader with the San Francisco Symphony. Ruggles was also a prolific painter, selling hundreds of paintings during his lifetime. Carl Ruggles was born in Marion, Massachusetts in 1876. His mother died at an early age and he was raised mainly by his grandmother. Ruggles' father, Nathaniel, was rumored to have a gambling problem and lost most of the family's inherited wealth. Carl was never very close to his father and never saw him from the age of 29 onwards. He teutonized his name to 'Carl' at an early age (partially due to his great admiration for German composers, especially Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss), and though he never legally chang
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The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles
The Uncovered Ruggles
The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles (2024 Remastered Version)
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Violin Recital: Koh, Jennifer - Higdon, J. / Harrison, L. / Adams, J. / Ruggles, C. (String Poetic)
Ruggles: Sun Treader / Schuman: Violin Concerto / Piston: Symphony No. 2
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Carl Ruggles: Premiere Recordings: Evocations, Lilacs & Portals
Ruggles: Sun-treader (Recorded 1994)
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The Unknown Ives
Lou Harrison & Carl Ruggles: Orchestral Works
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Modernism In Music
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The Complete Music (Tilson Thomas etc.)
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