# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-sametini
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:41:25.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-sametini"
name: "Léon Sametini"
slug: "leon-sametini"
description: "Leon Sametini was an American virtuoso violinist and music pedagogue who originated from Rotterdam, Holland. Sametini was born to Samual Sametini and Rose De Groot. He initially studied violin in the Netherlands with his uncle, M. De Groot, and from 1892 until he was 10 years of age with Dutch violinist Felice Togni and Bram Eldering at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. In 1902, Sametini went to Prague to study violin for one year with Otakar Ševčík. He also studied with notable teacher Eugène Ysaÿe."
tagline: "Dutch-American music pedagogue (1886–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/L%C3%A9on_Sametini_(1886%E2%80%931944).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1886-03-16"
deathDate: "1944-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.724137931034483
  historical:           6.335781333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b1bd6d63-d44e-4df1-b0f6-4c7991ab8a2b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sametini"
    title: "Leon Sametini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sametini"
    title: "Leon Sametini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sametini"
    title: "Leon Sametini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A1%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B"
    title: "レオン・サメティーニ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sametini"
    title: "Leon Sametini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Саметини, Леон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4406561"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump