Discipline: Music Composition

Elliott Schwartz

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Brunswick, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 1964, 1965

Elliott Schwartz (1936–2016) was an American composer. A graduate of Columbia University, he was Beckwith Professor Emeritus of music at Bowdoin College, joining the faculty in 1964. In 2006, the Library of Congress acquired his papers to make them part of their permanent collection. In addition to his composing, Schwartz also wrote a number of books, critical essays, and reviews. His books include Electronic Music: A Listener’s Guide, Music Since 1945 co-authored with Daniel Godfrey, and the anthology, Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music co-edited with Barney Childs.

Portrait by Erik Jorgensen

Studios

Veltin

Elliott Schwartz worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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