another of several heart attacks in 1918, after which he composed very little. He wrote his last piece, the song "Sunrise", in August 1926. In 1922, Ives published his 114 Songs, which represents the breadth of his work as a composer--it includes art songs, songs he wrote as a teenager and young man, and highly dissonant songs such as "The Majority".

According to his wife, one day in early 1927, Ives came downstairs with tears in his eyes. He could compose