Adolphe Samuel
Belgian composer, conductor and critic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Adolphe-Abraham Samuel was a Belgian music critic, teacher, conductor and composer. Biography Adolphe-Abraham Samuel was born in Liège in an artistic family. His parents encouraged him to become a painter and he began studying at the age of seven. He received his earliest music education from his sister Caroline before studying solfège and piano with Etienne Soubre and Auguste Franck and the Royal Conservatory of Liège. At the age of twelve he performed in concerts organised by the Belgian violinist Charles Auguste de Bériot and his sister-in-law Pauline Viardot. In 1840 he entered the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he studied harmony with Charles Bosselet, counterpoint with François-Joseph Fétis, piano with Jean-Baptiste Michelot and organ with Christian Girschner, earning first prize diplomas in all these disciplines. In 1841 he became an assistant teacher for solfège at the Brussels Conservatoire and the following year an assistant teacher for piano at the same institution.
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