SCHWERDTFEGER, E Anne

Composer, choral conductor, educator, and Dominican nun (was also known as Sister Mary Ernest O.P.). She earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Texas in 1953 and a Master of Music degree at the University of Notre Dame in 1963. Her teachers included Arthur Hall, 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. She chaired the Dominican College music department until 1972.