Alan Mauritz Swanson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alan Mauritz Swanson

American composer

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1941

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: composer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Alan Mauritz Swanson (born Chicago, Illinois 29 October 1941) is an American composer and academic who lives in the Netherlands. He took his BA (1963) and MA (1965) at Indiana University and his PhD at the University of Chicago (1973).
In between he studied at Stockholm University.
As an academic, he taught at Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois), Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and came to specialize in the theatre and opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Trained as a singer, many of his early compositions are for voice, but recent work has tended to be varied in form: string quartets, a viola concerto, a partita for piano, and others.
In 2006, he was honored for his academic and community work by being appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.