Jean Schwartz

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Jean Schwartz (born November 4, 1878 in Budapest , † November 30, 1956 in Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles ) was an American composer and songwriter.

William Jerome (left) and Jean Schwartz (right) 1909

Schwartz, whose sister was still studying with Franz Liszt , moved with his family to the United States in New York City at the age of thirteen . He was a pianist in an orchestra in Coney Island , a demonstration pianist in music stores and then pianist and agent at the music publishing house Shapiro, Bernstein and von Tilzer on Tin Pan Alley . His first composition, the Cakewalk Dusky Dudes , appeared in 1899 . In Vaudeville he accompanied the Dolly Sisters, also from Hungary (of whom he married one), as a pianist . In 1901 he teamed up with William Jerome (with whom he had played in vaudeville); the songwriting team successfully sold novelty songs such as Rip Van Winkle Was a Lucky Man , When Mr. Shakespeare Comes to Town or Bedelia (The Irish Coon Song Serenade) .

In 1904, inspired by the success of Marie Curie, he published the Radium Song ; they also had success with various ragtime songs. In 1906 they wrote their biggest hit, Chinatown, My Chinatown , which was published in 1910. Shortly before the First World War, the partnership between Jerome and Schwartz ended. During the First World War he wrote several songs for Al Jolson ( Hello Central! Give Me No Man's Land , Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody 1918, with Sam M. Lewis / Joe Young ). He was successful on Broadway in the 1920s and continued his songwriting career into the 1930s. In the 1930s he had a revue Songwriters on Parade with other songwriters who toured seaside resorts on the east coast.

In 1970 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame .

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SURNAME Schwartz, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1956
Place of death los Angeles