Leo Edwards (21 February 1886 – 12 July 1978[1]) was a Broadway and Tin Pan Alley composer and pianist.
[1] In 1891 he traveled to the United States with his family on the steamship Spaarndam; arriving at the Port of New York on 29 July 1891.
[1] His Broadway credits as a composer include The Wizard of Oz (1902), The Blue Paradise, The Merry Whirl (1911), and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1921 and 1923.
[3][1] Edwards co-wrote the popular song "My Fantasy" with Paul Whiteman and Jack Meskill, which is an adaptation of the Polovtsian Dances theme from the opera Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin.
Some of his other collaborators in song writing included Earl Carroll, Blanche Merrill, and Herbert Reynolds.