Everything about Charles Seeger totally explained
Charles (Louis) Seeger (
December 14,
1886,
Mexico City -
February 7,
1979,
Bridgewater, Connecticut) was a
musicologist,
composer, and teacher.
He graduated from
Harvard University in 1908, then studied and conducted in Cologne before taking a position as Professor of Music at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught from 1912 to 1916 before being dismissed for his public opposition to the US entry into World War I, where his brother,
Alan Seeger was killed in action on
July 4 1916 while serving as a member of the
French Foreign Legion . He then took a position at
Juilliard before teaching at the
Institute of Musical Art in New York from 1921 to 1933, the
New School for Social Research from 1931 to 1935, and the
University of California Los Angeles from 1957 to 1961. From 1961 to 1971 he was a research professor at the Institute of
Ethnomusicology at UCLA. In 1949-50 he was Visiting Professor of the Theory of Music in the School of Music at Yale University. From 1935 to 1953 he held positions in the federal government's
Resettlement Administration,
Works Projects Administration (WPA), and
Pan American Union, including serving as an administrator for the Works Projects Administration
Federal Music Project, for which his wife also worked, from 1938 to 1940.
His first wife was the violinist
Constance Edson; they divorced in 1927. One of their sons is
Pete Seeger, the folk singer. They had two other sons, Charles III, who was an astronomer, and John, an educator. His second wife was the composer and musician
Ruth Seeger (née
Ruth Porter Crawford); by her, he'd two children who also achieved musical renown,
Peggy Seeger and
Mike Seeger.
He is best remembered for his formulation of
dissonant counterpoint. According to
ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, "Seeger played a unique and central role in tying musicology to other disciplines and domains of culture. This collection shows him to be truly a musical 'man for all seasons,' for what comes across most is the many-sidedness of the man." (
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