Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

American biographer, essayist and musicologist

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1926

Place of Birth: Lebanon, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 19-Jan-2013

Profession: composer, biographer, artistic director, essayist, musicologist, music journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (January 30, 1926 – January 19, 2013) was an American biographer and writer on opera.
She is mainly known for her biography of Giuseppe Verdi, a result of 30 years' research and published in 1992 by Oxford University Press.
Born in Lebanon, Ohio and educated at Smith College and Columbia University, she lived for many years in Italy, and even after her return to the United States in the early 1970s spent her summers in Verdi's hometown of Busseto where she continued her exhaustive research into his life.
She died in New York City at the age of 86, survived by three of her five children.