Elsa Elene Swartz (June 25, 1874 - August 6, 1948)
was an American composer and music educator.
Swartz was born in
El Paso, Illinois
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, to Barbara Elizabeth Keller and Joseph Beery Swartz. She had four brothers and three sisters.
Swartz received a diploma from the Wesleyan Conservatory (today
Illinois Wesleyan University
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) and also studied music in Chicago. Her teachers included Gertrude H Murdough, Almon Kincaid Virgil,
M. Jennette London, and
Frederic Grant Gleason.
Swartz taught at the Wesleyan Conservatory for over a decade. She composed several pieces for children, which were published by Clayton F. Summy.
References
American women composers
1874 births
1948 deaths
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