Charles Ives: "My Father`s Song": A Psychoanalytic Biography

O'er shadowed lake is borne

—my father's song."—Charles Ives

Charles Ives, perhaps the quintessential American composer of the twentieth century, drew on his childhood experiences in a small New England town in his music. Through his close relationship with his father, George, a Civil War bandmaster, Ives developed a powerful feeling for nineteenth-century rural America. This book—the first full-scale psychoanalytic biography of a major composer—examines the lives o...