# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-gardner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:15:34.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-gardner"
name: "Samuel Gardner"
slug: "samuel-gardner"
description: "Samuel Gardner was an American composer and violinist of Russian Jewish origin. He won a Pulitzer Prize with a string quartet in 1918. He was a student of Franz Kneisel and Percy Goetschius, and began his career as a concert violinist; among his compositions is a violin concerto. He wrote a number of other chamber works, and a handful of things for orchestra, including Broadway, which was performed by the Boston Symphony in the 1929–30 season."
tagline: "Russian-American musician (1891–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Gardner-_American_composer_and_violinist_of_Russian_Jewish_origin_(Pulitzer_prize_winner_in_1918)_at_piano_between_1915_and_1920_detail%2C_from-_S._Gardner_LCCN2014706157_(cropped).tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1891-08-25"
deathDate: "1984-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.68
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           7.002736000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2009181"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "صموئيل غاردنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "صموئيل جاردنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gardner"
    title: "Samuel Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gardner"
    title: "Samuel Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC%D1%8E%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Гарднер, Сэмюэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8E%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Семюел Гарднер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c70a098d-699f-4183-a623-c926a5dca635"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1565115"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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