Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives

Born: October 20, 1874

Died: May 19, 1954

Married: Harmony Twichell, 1908

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Charles Ives was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. He was treated in Saranac Lake for neurasthenia, which, early in the 20th century, was considered to be a physical disease of the nervous system that could be treated with the rest cure.

Ives first visited Saranac Lake in September, 1905, to visit the brother of the woman he would later marry, Harmony Twichell.  David Twichell was being treated at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium for neurasthenia.  Ives himself would later be diagnosed with the disease, and would vacation in Saranac Lake, Elk Lake and Keene Valley in part to treat his condition.¹

Footnotes:

1. Gayle Sherwood Magee, Charles Ives Reconsidered, University of Illinois Press, pp. 79-81, 2008.

Sources:

• Wikipedia: Charles Ives

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Footnotes:

1. Gayle Sherwood Magee, Charles Ives Reconsidered, University of Illinois Press, pp. ives saranac lake neurasthenic&f=false 79-81, 2008.

Sources:

• Wikipedia: Charles Ives