Name Adolphe Samuel | Role Musical conductor | |
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Died September 11, 1898, Ghent, Belgium Education Royal Conservatory of Liege | ||
Adolphe samuel symphony no 6 in d minor op 44 1891
Adolphe-Abraham Samuel (11 July 1824 – 11 September 1898) was a Belgian music critic, conductor and composer.
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- Adolphe samuel symphony no 6 in d minor op 44 1891
- Adolphe Samuel Symphony No 6 in D minor Op 44
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Samuel was born in Liège. He was Jewish, and late in life converted to Christianity. He spent much time in Brussels where he was a pupil of François-Joseph Fétis, and where he was a friend of Hector Berlioz. He also studied with Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul at the Royal Conservatory of Liège.
Samuel, who won the Belgian Prix de Rome in 1845, composed seven symphonies (1846–94), five operas (1845–54) and a cantata for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the coronation of Belgium's first king, Leopold I (1856, L'union fait la force).
In 1871, after conducting an orchestra for some years and (beginning in 1865) directing a series of Popular Concerts in which works by Peter Leonard Leopold Benoit and Anton Rubinstein among others were featured, Samuel resigned and became director of the Ghent Conservatory. He died in Ghent.