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          Beethoven biographer Jan Swafford talks about Beethoven and the Romantics....

          "People don't live their lives in order to be interpreted by others for money." His Brahms and Ives biographies were NYT's end-of-year.

        1. "People don't live their lives in order to be interpreted by others for money." His Brahms and Ives biographies were NYT's end-of-year.
        2. Distinguished Author/Composer/Professor, Jan Swafford, joins Music Matters with Jason Tramm to discuss his career and insights into some of.
        3. Beethoven biographer Jan Swafford talks about Beethoven and the Romantics.
        4. Beethoven biographer Jan Swafford talks about Beethoven's late music, and the Late Quartets.
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          6. 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.

          10 months ago more.

          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