Samuel Gardner

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Samuel Gardner- American composer and violinist of Russian Jewish origin (Pulitzer prize winner in 1918) at piano between 1915 and 1920 detail, from- S. Gardner LCCN2014706157 (cropped) .tif

Samuel Gardner (born August 25, 1891 in Jelisavetgrad , Russian Empire , † January 23, 1984 in New York City ) was an American violinist, composer and music teacher of Russian origin.

Gardner came to the United States with his family at the age of one and grew up in Providence , Rhode Island . As a child he received violin lessons from Felix Wendelschaefer , which he continued from 1902 to 1908 with Charles Martin Loeffler and Felix Winternitz in Boston . He then studied composition with Percy Goetschius and violin with Fritz Kneisel at the New York Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School ) until 1913 .

In the 1910s he worked with the Kneisel Quartet and the Elshuco Trio and performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the New York Philharmonic , the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra . In 1918 he played the world premiere of his violin concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux .

From 1924 to 1941 Gardner taught at the Institute of Musical Art , as well as at Columbia University , the University of Wisconsin , the Hartt School of Music and the Atlanta School of Music . His pedagogical works include a violin school and Harmonic Thinking , a school for playing strings.

From 1938 to 1939 he conducted the New York Federal Music Project , from 1946 he was conductor and musical director of the Staten Island Symphony Orchestra . For his string quartet (1918) he was awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship . His composition From the Canebrake is one of the standard pieces for violinists.

Works (selection)

  • Violin Concerto , 1918
  • New Russia , symphonic poem, 1917/1921
  • Hebrew Fantasy for clarinet and strings, 1921
  • Broadway , symphonic poem for orchestra, organ, saxophone and banjo, 1924
  • Country Moods for string orchestra, 1946

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on: SNAC
  2. ^ Samuel Gardner Music Collection
personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Jelisavetgrad
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1984
Place of death New York City