Ruth Crawford Seeger
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 71 years ago |
Date of birth | July 3,1901 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | East Liverpool |
Ohio | |
United States | |
Date of died | November 18,1953 |
Died | Chevy Chase Manor |
Chevy Chase | |
Maryland | |
United States | |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Charles Seeger |
Children | Peggy Seeger |
Mike Seeger | |
Job | Composer |
Books | The Music of American Folk Song |
American Folksongs For Children | |
Animal Folk Songs for Children: Traditional American Songs | |
Music for Small Orchestra (1926): Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano (1929) | |
Out of Our Fathers' House: Based on Eve Merriam's Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives | |
Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
Grandchildren | Neill MacColl |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada |
Albums | Crawford: 9 Preludes / Study in Mixed Accents / Beyer: Dissonant Counterpoint / Gebrauchs-Musik |
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ID | 546239 |
Ruth Crawford Seeger Life story
Ruth Crawford Seeger was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music was a prominent exponent of the emerging modernist aesthetic and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the "ultramoderns".