Samuel Adler
Born: 4th March 1928, Mannheim, Germany
Nationality: American
Samuel Hans Adler is a German-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.
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Composer Spotlight: Samuel Adler
15th May 2026
Composer of over four hundred published works, Samuel Adler's music is considered 'midstream modernism', blending traditional Western classical music structures with more experimental techniques such as serialism, diatonicism, and atonality.
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Popular Works: Adler, S
- A Euphonious Quartet (5)
- A Testament (3)
- Acrostics (Four Games for Six Players) (3)
- Be Not Afraid: the isle is full of noises (2)
- Brahmsiana (3)
- Composer Portraits (4) (2)
- Concerto For Cello (3)
- Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra (3)
- Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (4)
- Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra (8)
- Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (5)
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (4)
- Contrasting Inventions (2)
- Diary of a Journey (4)
- Die Streiche von Max & Moritz (3)
- Etudes (4) for solo violin 'Meadowmountetudes' (2)
- Festival Fanfare and Dance (3)
- Five Snapshots (3)
- Flute Sonata (2)
- Histrionics (3)
- In the Spirit of Bach (4)
- Into the Radiant Boundaries of Light (3)
- Lux Perpetua (3)
- Madrigals (3)
- Meditation on the Name BACH (4)
- Music for Nine (4)
- Nuptial Scene (2)
- Pasiphae (4)
- Piano Concerto No. 3 (2)
- Piano Quintet (4)
- Ports of Call 'A Mediterranean Suite' (3)
- Primavera Amarilla (4)
- Recalling The Yesterdays (3)
- Rogues & Lovers (3)
- Romp (4)
- String Quartet No. 10 (5)
- String Quartet No. 6 (A Whitman Serenade) (3)
- String Quartet No. 9 (4)
- The River That Mines The Silences Of Stones (5)
- Wind Conversations (3)
