1940. Seeger died on February 7, 1979, in Bridgewater, Connecticut. He was buried at the Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, Massachusetts along with his second wife. Family His first wife was Constance de Clyver Edson, a classical violinist and teacher; they divorced in 1927. They had three sons, Charles III (1912–2002), who was an astronomer, John (1914–2010), an educator, and Pete (1919–2014), a folk singer. His second wife was the composer and musician Ruth Crawford Seeger (née Ruth Porter Crawford). With her he had four children: Mike Seeger (1933–2009), Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), Barbara Seeger and Penny Seeger (1943-1993). His grandson, Anthony Seeger (b. 1945), is an anthropologist and professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California Los Angeles. Contributions He is known, among other reasons, for his formulation of dissonant counterpoint. According to the ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, "Seeger played a unique and central role in tying musicology to other disciplines and domains of culture. This collection shows him to be truly a musical 'man for all seasons,' for what comes across most is the many-sidedness of the man." References Further reading Pescatello, Ann M.,"Charles (Louis) Seeger", Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. L. Macy (Accessed December 12, 2006) Pescatello, Ann M., Charles Seeger: a life in American music, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Seeger, Charles, Studies in musicology, 1935–1975, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1977. . Sharif, Malik, Speech about Music. Charles Seeger's Meta-Musicology. Wien: Hollitzer, 2019, . External links 1886 births 1979 deaths Harvard University alumni Ethnomusicologists Modernist composers People from Mexico City People from Staten Island People of the New Deal arts projects Seeger family University of California, Berkeley faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty Juilliard School faculty The New School faculty American expatriates in Mexico Smithsonian Institution people Sociomusicologists 20th-century American musicologists