Samuel Gardner

For other people named Samuel Gardner, see Samuel Gardner (disambiguation).

Samuel Gardner (August 25, 1891 – January 23, 1984) was an American composer and violinist of Russian origin. He won a Pulitzer prize with a string quartet in 1918. He was a student of Franz Kneisel and Percy Goetschius, and began his career as a concert violinist; among his compositions is a violin concerto. He wrote a number of other chamber works, and a handful of things for orchestra, including Broadway, which was performed by the Boston Symphony in the 1929-30 season.

References

Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
NYTimes obituary

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Name	Gardner, Samuel
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Date of birth	August 25, 1891
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Date of death	January 23, 1984
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