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In 1929, Ruth Crawford began studying composition with musicologist, composer, and folklorist Charles Seeger. The following year, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship: “Appointed for creative work in musical composition, abroad; tenure, twelve months from August 1, 1930,” the first woman to win one for composition.While in Europe she met Alban Berg in Vienna and Béla Bartók in Budapest.
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 artist.
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Crawford and Seeger married in 1932, and their first child, Michael, was born in 1933. After the birth of Peggy, their first daughter, in 1935, the Seeger family moved to Washington, DC, so that Charles could begin a position as a music specialist with the federal government’s recently created Resettlement Administration.
Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds offers new perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawf...
14 de mar. de 2023 · Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953) occupies a unique position in the pantheon of twentieth-century musical women, for her work as an ultramodernist composer and a folk music transcriber/arranger presents a provocative challenge to conventional notions of “the cultivated” and “the vernacular” that have historically served to divide, rather than connect, America's rich musical heritage.
21 de ene. de 2021 · Ruth Crawford Seeger nació el 3 de julio de 1901 en Ohio bajo el nombre de Ruth Porter Crawford y murió en Maryland el 18 de noviembre de 1953. Fue una compositora y etnomusicóloga estadounidense reconocida tanto por su originalidad y autenticidad artística, como por su labor historiográfica y educacional.
