Samuel Gardner
Samuel Gardner ( born August 25, 1891 in Jelisawetgrad; † January 23, 1984 in New York City ) was an American violinist, composer and music educator.
Gardner arrived with his family at the age of one year in the U.S. and grew up in Providence / Rhode Iceland. He received as a child violin lessons from Felix spiral Schaefer, From 1902 to 1908 he studied with Charles Martin Loeffler and Felix Winternitz in Boston. Then he studied until 1913 at the New York Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard School) composition with Percy Goetschius and violin with Fritz Kneisel.
In the 1910s he worked with the Kneisel Quartet and the Elshuco Trio and performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1918 he played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux the premiere of his Violin Concerto.
From 1924 to 1941, Gardner taught at the Institute of Musical Art, besides also at Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin, the Hartt School of Music and the Atlanta School of Music. Among his pedagogical works there is a violin school and Harmonic Thinking, a school for the strings match.
From 1938 to 1939 he conducted the New York Federal Music Project, from 1946 he was the conductor and musical director of the Staten Iceland Symphony Orchestra. For his Second String Quartet, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. His composition From the Canebrake is one of the standard pieces for violinists.
Works
- Violin Concerto, 1918
- New Russia, symphonic poem, 1921
- Broadway, 1924
- Hebrew Fantasy for Clarinet and Strings
- Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
- American composer
- Classical violinist
- Music teacher
- Americans
- Born 1891
- Died in 1984
- Man