Samuel Gardner was an American

United States

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 composer and violin

Violin

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ist of Russia

Russia

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n origin. He won a Pulitzer prize with a string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

 in 1918. He was a student of Franz Kneisel

Franz Kneisel

Franz Kneisel was an American violinist and teacher of Romanian birth.Born in Bucharest, the son of a German bandmaster, he learned to play the flute, clarinet and trumpet, as well as the violin...

 and Percy Goetschius

Percy Goetschius

Percy Goetschius won international fame in the teaching of the theory of composition.-Life:Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Goetschius was the piano pupil of Robert E. H. Gehring, a prominent teacher of that era. Goetschius was the organist of the Second Presbyterian Church from 1868–1870 and of the...

, and began his career as a concert violinist; among his compositions is a violin concerto. He wrote a number of other chamber works

Chamber music

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, and a handful of things for orchestra, including Broadway, which was performed by the Boston Symphony in the 1929-30 season.