Ives Charles: Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

Charles Ives was a late-Romantic composer with an important spiritual statement to make. ""Symphony No. 1 in D minor"" is an example of how Ives synthesized ideas from composers who came before him. This symphony is composed in the late-Romantic European tradition, and is believed to contain many paraphrases from famous European pieces such as *Tchaikovsky"'s "'Pathétique"" and *Schubert"'s Unfinished symphonies* and especially *Dvorák"'s "'New World Symphony"'.* Including the ""Symphony No. 4"', ""one of his most definitive works"";* Ives"' biographer, *Jan Swafford*, has called it ""Ives"'s climactic masterpiece"".*