# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-swafford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:36:40.260Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-swafford"
name: "Jan Swafford"
slug: "jan-swafford"
description: "Jan Swafford is an American author and composer. He earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. His teachers included Earl Kim at Harvard, Jacob Druckman at Yale, and Betsy Jolas at Tanglewood. He has written respected musical biographies of Charles Ives, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as the Vintage Guide to Classical Music and the introduction to music \"Language of the Spirit.\" His books are widely translated, including editions in Spanish, Chinese, Italian, and Portuguese. He appeared in the award-winning 2018 German documentary The Unanswered Ives."
tagline: "American biographer and composer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.14
  momentum:             4.285714285714284
  historical:           7.015732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.janswafford.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1995699"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "چان سوافورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Swafford"
    title: "Jan Swafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Swafford"
    title: "Jan Swafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Swafford"
    title: "Jan Swafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Swafford"
    title: "Jan Swafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Swafford"
    title: "Jan Swafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/99d949bc-3633-4853-9279-ea248ee4e1a4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3048482"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump