Francis Schwartz

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Francis Schwartz (born March 10, 1940 ) is an American composer and pianist.

Schwartz grew up in Texas, where he was a piano student of Patricio Gutierrez . He studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Lonny Epstein , Louis Persinger and Vittorio Giannini . He earned his bachelor's and master's degree here and then a Ph. D. in the field of musical aesthetics at the University of Paris .

At the end of the 1960s he settled in Puerto Rico, where he founded the avant-garde music group Fluxus with Rafael Aponte-Ledée . He worked in the field of music theater and experimented with multimedia forms ( multiartistic creations ). He also taught at the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras and was dean of the humanities faculty from 1995 to 1999. In 2002 he represented Stephen Miles as a music professor at the New College of Florida .

Works

  • Auschwitz , a multi-sensory music theater piece, 1968
  • Cosmos an "intercontinental polyartistic event", 1976
  • We've Got (Poly) Rhythm for guitar with audience participation, 1984
  • Dali & Gala , "operatic anti-opera", WP 2004
  • The Death of García-Lorca , UA 2006
personal data
SURNAME Schwartz, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1940