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Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life.
Swafford's biography includes a great deal of focus on Beethoven's early years in Bonn....
Jan Swafford
American author and composer (born 1946)
Jan Swafford (born September 10, 1946) is an American author and composer.
He earned his Bachelor of Artsmagna cum laude from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music.
His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's.His teachers included Earl Kim at Harvard, Jacob Druckman at Yale, and Betsy Jolas at Tanglewood.[1] He has written respected musical biographies of Charles Ives, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as the Vintage Guide to Classical Music.
He appeared in the award-winning 2018 German documentary The Unanswered Ives.
Works
Swafford has written columns on music and other subjects in Slate, and is heard as a commentator on NPR and the BBC.
He is a regular program annotator for orchestras and venues including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, and Carnegie Hall.
His writing honors include a 2012 De
