Jean Schwartz Composer Budapest, Hungary, November 4, 1878; Los Angeles, California, November 30, 1956. Schwartz’s family came to the United States to live in New York City when he was thirteen. He studied the piano and got a job as a demonstrator in the music department of Siegel-Cooper’s, which boasted New York’s first department store sheet music counter. He then joined Shapiro, Bernstein and Von Tilzer as staff pianist and plugger. His first published composition was the Cakewalk hit…