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Elsa Elene Swartz (June 25, 1874 - August 6, 1948)[1] was an American composer[2] and music educator.[3]

Swartz was born in El Paso, Illinois, to Barbara Elizabeth Keller and Joseph Beery Swartz. She had four brothers and three sisters.[1] Swartz received a diploma from the Weslyan Conservatory (today Illinois Wesleyan University) and also studied music in Chicago. Her teachers included Gertrude H Murdough, Almon Kincaid Virgil,[4] M. Jennette London, and Frederic Grant Gleason. [5]

Swartz taught at the Weslyan Conservatory for over a decade. She composed several pieces for children, which were published by Clayton F. Summy.[5]


References


  1. Swartz, Elsa Elene. "Ancestry® | Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2021-10-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
  3. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  4. Wier, Albert Ernest (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan.
  5. International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1918.


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