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'''Elizabeth Anne Schwerdtfeger''' (1 February 1930 - 11 September 2008) was an American composer,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hixon |first=Donald L. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156 |title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography |date=1993 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |others=Don A. Hennessee |isbn=0-8108-2769-7 |edition=2nd |location=Metuchen, N.J. |oclc=28889156}}</ref> choral conductor,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Heinrich |first=Adel |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/650307517 |title=Organ and harpsichord music by women composers : an annotated catalog |date=1991 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-38790-6 |location=New York |oclc=650307517}}</ref> educator, and [[Fulbright scholar]] who spent several years as a [[Dominican nun]] and was also known as '''Sister Mary Ernest O.P.''' (Ordo Praedicatorum). She was known professionally as '''E. Anne Schwerdtfeger'''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846 |title=International encyclopedia of women composers |date=1987 |isbn=0-9617485-2-4 |edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged |location=New York |oclc=16714846}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Drone |first=Jeanette Marie |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62858081 |title=Musical AKAs : assumed names and sobriquets of composers, songwriters, librettists, lyricists, hymnists, and writers on music |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-8108-5739-1 |location=Lanham, Maryland |oclc=62858081}}</ref>

Schwerdtfeger was born in [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]], Texas,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stern |first=Susan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3844725 |title=Women composers : a handbook |date=1978 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1138-3 |location=Metuchen, N.J. |oclc=3844725}}</ref> to Frances McLaughlin and Ernest Paul Schwerdtfeger.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schwerdtfeger |first=Elizabeth Ann |title=Birth Certificate |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1246151:2275 |access-date=2022-11-12 |website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref> In 1950, she lived in a Dominican convent and studied at the Dominican College in Houston. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the [[University of Texas System|University of Texas]] in 1953 and a Master of Music degree at the [[University of Notre Dame]] in 1963.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=Ruth |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2035024 |title=Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary |date=1976 |publisher=G.K. Hall |isbn=0-8161-1117-0 |location=Boston |oclc=2035024}}</ref> Her teachers included Arthur Hall, [[Clifton Williams (composer)|Clifton Williams]], and Carl Hager. She received a Fulbright scholarship to study in France in 1963 and 1964. In 1969, the Dominican Sisters of Houston, Texas, commissioned Schwerdtfeger to compose ''Two Pieces'' for women's voices based on text by [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref name=":0" /> She chaired the Dominican College music department until 1972.<ref name=":1" />

In 1975, Schwerdtfeger earned a B. Oriental Liturgy from the [[Pontifical Oriental Institute]] in Rome, and a Lic. Oriental Liturgy in 1977.<ref name=":1" /> She remained in Rome until her death in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schwerdtfege |first=Elizabeth A. |date= |title=Social Security Death Index |url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3693&h=83623065&tid=&pid=&queryId=372e14d5f7b606347ba947f29b66332d&usePUB=true&_phsrc=duD8&_phstart=successSource&_gl=1*1firntv*_ga*MTE2MzQ4MDg4NS4xNjY4MTI5NjA0*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY2ODEyOTYwNC4xLjEuMTY2ODEzMDE3OC4zNi4wLjA. |access-date=11 Nov 2022 |website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref> Her compositions included:

== Chamber ==

*''Modal Suite'' (harp and tuba)<ref name=":1" />

*''Variations on an Irish Air'' (six harps)<ref name=":1" />

== Orchestra ==

*Christus Rex (chamber orchestra)<ref name=":1" />

*Exaudi Domine (string orchestra)<ref name=":1" />

*Symphony in One Movement<ref name=":1" />

== Organ ==

*''Fugue'' (organ)<ref name=":1" />

== Piano ==

*''Charivari<ref name=":1" />''

*''Modal Suite<ref name=":1" />''

*''Three Pieces<ref name=":1" />''

*''Toccatina''<ref name=":1" />

== Vocal ==

*''Amo Christum'' (women's chorus)<ref name=":1" />

*''Ave Maria Stella'' (women's chorus)<ref name=":1" />

*''Cantata<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stewart-Green |first=Miriam |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6815939 |title=Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice |date=1980 |publisher=G.K. Hall |isbn=0-8161-8498-4 |location=Boston, Mass. |oclc=6815939}}</ref>''

*''Hymn of St. Francis'' (women's chorus)<ref name=":1" />

*''Mass of [[Martin de Porres|St. Martin de Porres]]'' (unison voices and organ)<ref name=":1" />

*''O Sacrum Convivium'' (women's chorus)<ref name=":1" />

*''Two Pieces'' (women's chorus and organ; text by Tagore)<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
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[[Category:American women composers]]
[[Category:20th-century American Roman Catholic nuns]]
[[Category:American choral conductors]]
[[Category:American women conductors (music)]]
[[Category:1930 births]]
[[Category:2008 deaths]]
[[Category:Pseudonyms]]
[[Category:People from Galveston County, Texas]]
[[Category:Fulbright alumni]]
[[Category:Pontifical Oriental Institute alumni]]
[[Category:Dominican nuns]]

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