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Ruth Crawford Seeger, de soltera Ruth Porter Crawford, (East Liverpool, Ohio, 3 de julio de 1901- Chevy Chase, Maryland, 18 de noviembre de 1953) fue una compositora y etnomusicóloga estadounidense.
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) was an American composer and musicologist who pioneered modernism and studied folk music. She composed the String Quartet (1931), worked with Charles Seeger and the Lomaxes, and influenced Elliott Carter.
28 de mar. de 2017 · Learn about the life and work of Ruth Crawford Seeger, a pioneer of American women composers and a major figure in the study and preservation of American folk music. Explore her experimental, serialist style, her influential String Quartet, and her collaboration with her husband Charles Seeger.
Ruth Crawford Seeger was a U.S. composer. She studied piano as a child and was self-taught as a composer until she entered the American Conservatory. After early works influenced by Alexander Scriabin, she wrote several astonishing serial pieces, including her String Quartet (1931).
13 de oct. de 2017 · Ruth Crawford Seeger created pathbreaking music. But her family’s folk revival legacy has overshadowed her avant-garde compositions.
24 de feb. de 2013 · En 1929, Ruth se traslada a Nueva York y empieza a dar clases con el musicólogo y compositor Charles Seeger —con el que luego se casaría—, uno de esos profesores que tenía una “teoría”, un “sistema” para componer: la del “contrapunto disonante”, en la que se busca específicamente desarrollar todas las disonancias ...
Ultra-Modern composer, traditional music collector, political activist and mother to a famous family of folk-song revivalists, Ruth Crawford Seeger led an emblematic life as a woman and an...
