Schoenberg on Ives

There is a great Man living in this Country – a composer.  He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self-esteem and to learn.  He responds to negligence by contempt.  He is not forced to accept praise or blame.  His name is Ives.

– Arnold Schoenberg
quoted in Henry & Sydney Cowell,

Charles Ives and His Music (OUP, 1955) 

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