About Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the "ultramodernist". She composed primarily during the 1920s and 1930s, turning towards studies on folk music from the late 1930s until her death. Her music influenced later composers including Elliott Carter. In 1913, she began piano lessons with Bertha Foster, who had founded the School of Musical Arts in Jacksonville in 1908. She also became a piano teacher at Foster's school and wrote her first compositions for her young pupils in 1918 and 1919.
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