Irwin Swack
Born: 8th November 1916, West Salem, Ohio, United States
Died: 2nd January 2006, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Irwin Swack was an American composer of contemporary classical music from West Salem, Ohio.
He held degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (where he studied violin, graduating with a B.M. in 1939), the Juilliard School, Northwestern University (master's degree), and Columbia University (doctorate). He studied with Henry Cowell (at Columbia University), Gunther Schuller (at Tanglewood), Vittorio Giannini (at Juilliard), Paul Creston (at Columbia University), and Normand Lockwood. Swack also worked as an assistant professor of music at Jacksonville State College. His music was recorded on the Centaur, CRS, Opus One, and Living Artist Recordings labels.
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