Henry Swoboda (October 29, 1897 – August 13, 1990) was a Czechoslovakian conductor and musicologist and, with James Grayson and Mischa Naida, co-founder of U.S. Westminster Records which flourished in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s as a purveyor of classical music recordings.
He worked from 1927 to 1931 for Electrola, Berlin and later as conductor for Radio-Prag.
He was a Guestprofessor at University of Southern California between 1931–1939 and emigrated 1939 to the USA.
Lit: Horst Weber, Manuela Schwartz (Ed.
), Sources relating to the history of émigré musicians, 1933–1950, vol.