Ruth Crawford Seeger

Ruth Porter Crawford Seeger was a remarkable composer, admired greatly among the few who knew her music, and one of the most stylistically advanced composers of her time. She was also a leading ethnomusicologist and an excellent teacher and academic. Born in 1901, she worked as a piano teacher and later attended the American Conservatory in Chicago. On graduation she began teaching at the Conservatory and at nearby Elmhurst College of Music. Her music began to appear in the "New Music Editions," and she also studied under Charles Seeger in New York. Meanwhile, her music was becoming more chromatic and dissonant until she approached the forefront of the American avant garde of the day.



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