Jean Schwartz

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

Schwartz, whose sister was a student of Franz Liszt, and his family moved to thirteen years in the United States after New York City. He was a pianist in an orchestra in Coney Iceland, demonstration piano player in Note stores and then pianist and agent in the music publishing house Shapiro, Bernstein and von Tilzer in the Tin Pan Alley. In 1899 appeared his first composition, the Cakewalk Dusky Dudes. In vaudeville, he accompanied a pianist who also of Hungarian origin Dolly Sisters ( one of which he married ). In 1901 he teamed up with William Jerome together (with whom he had played in vaudeville ); the songwriting team successfully sold Novelty titles like Rip Van Winkle Was a Lucky Man, When Mr. Shakespeare Comes to Town or Bedelia ( The Irish Coon Song Serenade ). In 1904 he published inspired by the successes of Marie Curie Radium song; they also had success with a variety of ragtime songs. In 1906 she wrote her biggest hit, Chinatown, My Chinatown, which was laid in 1910. Shortly before the First World War ended the partnership between Jerome and Schwartz. 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 continued into the 1930s. In the 1930s he had with other songwriters a Review Songwriters on Parade, which toured the east coast seaside resorts.

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