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Samuel Adler (composer)

Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Adler's musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards including Germany's Order of Merit – Officer's Cross.

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

Samuel Adler

Samuel Hans Adler

(1928-03-04) 4 March 1928
Mannheim, Germany

American

Composer, conductor, author, and professor

1952–2016

Founder of the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra

Carol Starker
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(m. 1960; div. 1989)​
Emily Freeman Brown
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(m. 1991)​

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American Academy of Arts and Letters
Cross of Merit (Germany)

 United States

United States Army

1950–1952

Corporal

2d Armored Division

samuelhadler.com

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Don Michael Randel (Ed.): "Adler, Samuel". In The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.

R. Winston Morris, Lloyd E. Bone Jr., Eric Paull (Ed.): "Adler, Samuel". In Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire – The Euphoneum Sourcebook. Indiana University Press, IN 2007

Adler, Samuel (Director) (1952). (Photograph). Kassel, Germany. Retrieved September 30, 2020.

The Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra

Oteri, Frank J. (April 1, 2015). . NewMusicBox. Video presentation by Molly Sheridan; Translated by Julia Lu. New Music USA. Retrieved September 30, 2020.

"Samuel Adler: Knowing What You're Doing"

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Official website

January 21, 1991

Interview with Samuel Adler

at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Samuel Hans Adler Papers

Samuel Adler - photographs at the Milken Archive of Jewish Music