Samuel Sanford

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Samuel Simons Sanford (born March 15, 1849 in Bridgeport , † January 6, 1910 ) was an American pianist and music teacher. A medal of honor is named after him, which is awarded by Yale University to people who have made a contribution to classical music.

Life

Sanford studied piano in New York with William Mason , (who was Lowell Mason's son and who was a student of Franz Liszt and Ignaz Moscheles ). In Paris he perfected his skills under the guidance of Alfred Jaëll , Louis Plaidys (teacher Hans von Bülow and many others), Théodore Ritters , also a former student of Liszt, and Édouard Batiste .

In 1869, Sanford met Anton Rubinstein as a fellow student , with whom he went on his first tour in the United States in 1872 and 1873. Ignacy Jan Paderewski changed the style of his piano performances after hearing Sanford play and described Sanford as "the most musically gifted person he had ever met".

The brothers Walter and Frank Damrosch and Theodore Thomas were made aware of the compositions of Edward Elgar by Sanford and at his instigation Edward Elgar was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Yale University in 1905. During the award ceremony on June 28, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 , the usual solemn procedure on events of this kind. In the same year Elgar returned the favor to Sanford with the composition of Introduction and Allegro .

In 1894, Sanford took on a professorship at the Faculty of Applied Music with Horatio Parker , while Parker taught music theory .

Being wealthy, Sanford waived all of his university income for 16 years.

On January 16, 1910, he died at his place of residence after a long illness.

Sanford Medal

In 1972 Yale University donated the Samuel Simons Sanford Medal (colloquially known as the Sanford Medal or English Sanford Medal ), which is awarded to artists who have performed particularly well as performers, or to people who have made an outstanding contribution to classical music . A selection of the people or groups to whom the medal has been awarded:

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ James Beswick Whitehead: Elgar's English Twilight, an Idyll, or Dream Interludes of a Knightly Character: Esoteric strands in a Nationalist composer with some new light on the text of the Nazarene Oratorios . July 2, 2001. Archived from the original on January 11, 2009.
  3. ^ History of the Yale School of Music . Yale University. Archived from the original on January 7, 2008.
  4. ^ History . Yale School of Music, Yale University. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
  5. ^ SS Sanford Dead: Yale Professor of Music Succumbs to Long Illness . In: New York Tribune , January 7, 1910, p. 7. 
  6. ^ Doriot Anthony Dwyer: Flute Faculty . The Boston Conservatory. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  7. ^ Krasner, Louis, 1903-1995. Louis Krasner papers, 1917-1995: Guide . In: OASIS: Online Archival Search Information System . Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University . February 11, 2015. Archived from the original on May 6, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 12, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oasis.lib.harvard.edu
  8. ↑ Elizabeth Sleeman (Ed.): The International Who's Who of Women 2002 . Psychology Press, 2001, ISBN 1857431227 .
  9. ↑ Elizabeth Lumley (Ed.): Canadian Who's Who 2003 . University of Toronto Press, 2003.
  10. ↑ Richard F. French, Musicologist: 1915-2001 Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Information: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Harvard University Department of Music (Ed.): Newsletter . 1, No. 2, Summer 2001. Retrieved November 12, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / music.fas.harvard.edu
  11. ^ Transitions: Dorothy DeLay, beloved violin teacher . In: FanFaire webzine . FanFaire LLC.
  12. ↑ Dean honors music-loving Thai king Archived from the original on May 29, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Yale University (Ed.): Yale Bulletin & Calendar . 28, No. 22, February 25, 2000. Retrieved May 1, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yale.edu
  13. ^ School of Music, 2002-2003 . Yale University. July 20, 2002.
  14. ^ Robert Blocker, Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music & Professor of Piano . Yale School of Management, Yale University. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
  15. ↑ Leading clarinetist to receive Sanford Medal: Richard Stoltzman will receive the award at a ceremony on September 1 . TourDates.Co.UK. August 31, 2005. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 12, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tourdates.co.uk
  16. ↑ VIVIAN PERLIS . In: Oral History of American Music (OHAM) . Yale University. February 3, 2010. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 25, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.library.yale.edu
  17. ↑ Willie Ruff receives Sanford Medal . Yale School of Music, Yale University. May 24, 2013.
  18. ↑ a b c d e f g h Tokyo Quartet, Peter Oundjian receive Sanford Medals . Yale School of Music, Yale University. January 23, 2013 .: "Previous recipients of the Sanford Medal include Georg Solti, Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sherrill Milnes, Marilyn Horne, Emanuel Ax, and Richard Stoltzman."
  19. ↑ Wendell Brock: Passing of a musical giant: Robert Shaw's genius created place for Atlanta on world stage . In: Atlanta Journal and Constitution , Jan. 26, 1999. 
personal data
SURNAME Sanford, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanford, Samuel Simons (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridgeport
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1910