# Jan Swafford
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jan swafford (born September 10, 1946) is an American author and composer. He earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. His teachers included Earl Kim at Harvard, Jacob Druckman at Yale, and Betsy Jolas at Tanglewood.
Off the Shelf Radio Show - April 3, 2026
Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Hannah Simpson and Matt Davis and guest Jane Hawes from the Delaware County Commissioners' Office.
This week we chat about boardsmanship and how to apply to the vacant seat on the DCDL Board of Trustees. And, of course, what we're readi…
Jan Swafford | Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph | Biography | Ep. 8
Musician, writer, and biographer Jan Swafford reads not one but two passages! The first from the opening of his biography of the American composer Charles Ives and the second from his massive book on the life of Beethoven, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph–9n his words the hardest thing he’s ever writ…
Ludwig van Beethoven: Under the Bone
Ludwig van Beethoven went deaf before he wrote his most famous work. The Ninth Symphony premiered in 1824 and he could not hear a note of it. The Archivist does the one thing no living person ever could — lets him hear it. What follows is a combative, funny, and devastating conversation about the s…
Music, nature and inspiration with composer Jan Swafford
Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
I had the opportunity to interview Maestro Swafford in person and then attend a recording of his tone poem Late Autumn-First Snow at Abbey Road. The orchestra t…
Jan Swafford
Michael Shapiro talks to the extraordinary Jan Swafford whose remarkable biographies of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Ives are irreplaceable. No one can talk like a great biographer, and when that writer is also a fine and highly expressive composer, there is simply nothing like it. Not to be miss…
173. Teresa Nakra, Exploring Music through Culture, Technology, & Creative Coding
Show Notes
Teresa shares her background as a music major at Harvard, focusing on conducting. She discusses her decision to apply for the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship to study Indian classical music in India. Teresa describes her year in India, living with a family and studying North Indian cl…
River and Late Autumn – First Snow: A Conversation with Jan Swafford
Composer and writer Jan Swafford discusses the recording of his recent orchestral works, River and Late Autumn - First Snow, in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios. In this conversation:
The genesis of Late Autumn - First Snow
New England in late autumn; nature as mu…
Longing
We bring meanings to music that the composers often didn't intend. And this episode is going to be an example of that. There is something in some music that for me triggers a sort of longing. The writer and composer Jan Swafford describes some of Mozart's music as having a 'deep yearning' and I thi…
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