Born March 4th, 1928, Adler is a German-American composer, conductor, author, and professor. Born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, on the cusp of World War II, the Adler family fled the Nazi regime in Germany in 1939, travelling through the Netherlands to the United States. Samuel began his musical studies there, learning the violin with Albert Levy. He went on to study with well-known names like Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston, and Serge Koussevitsky.
His compositional output includes three operas, six symphonies, ten string quartets, and numerous concertos, orchestral, choral, chamber, and instrumental works.
Samuel Adler Sheet Music
Samuel Adler: In The Spirit of Bach
String Orchestra | Score and Parts
Adler was asked to write a short work based upon one of ten sketches that Bach had prepared, but never used, for the Goldberg Variations. The resulting In the Spirit of Bach features "a relentless drive with sixteenths dominating the entire Allegro" and is playable by better school orchestras. For intermediate to advanced players.
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Samuel Adler: A Bonnie Tune
Flute | Sheet Music Download
Composed for Bonita Boyd in celebration of her 35 years of teaching at the Eastman School of Music, this spritely scherzo for solo flute is one of several soliloquies composed by the prolific Samuel Adler in 2011. For advanced players.
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Samuel Adler: Bravura
Bass Trombone | Sheet Music Download
The title Bravura proudly proclaims the nature of this valuable addition to the bass trombone's concert repertoire, composed for the British virtuoso Jonathan Warburton. For advanced players.
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Samuel Adler: Bassoonery
Bassoon
This is one of a group of four studies, each published separately, originally written for one performer who plays flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. Each of them may be played simply as written, by one performer, or by one performer with a pre-recorded tape accompaniment of the optional instruments, or by a group of performers, with one or more players for the principal and optional instruments.
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Commissioned by Carl Fischer for a school band series in the 1970s, A Little Night and Day Music is a classic of the modern band repertoire. The Night Music section is a study in colour and atmosphere and makes striking use of contemporary instrumental techniques, including clusters and aleatory. The second section (Day Music) is a bright and brassy contrast, full of drive and an exhilarating momentum.
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Samuel Adler: A Bridge To Understanding
Orchestra Study Score
Commissioned by the Empire State Youth Orchestra, Helen Cha-Pyo, conductor, for its New Music for a New Generation Festival.
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Commissioned for a program of the Music Teachers Association of California to encourage American composers to write works for student pianists.
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Samuel Adler: Canto VIII
Piano | Sheet Music Download
Part of the acclaimed Canto series, Canto VIII is a work for solo piano, high in energy and with a virtuosic style.
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Samuel Adler: Sonatina
Piano
This rhythmically challenging Sonatina features a 'fast and brilliant' first movement, a 'slow and very gently moving' second and a finale which dispenses with bar-lines entirely until the last moments.
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From its propulsive opening bars that evoke the great Eroica symphony, Samuel Adler's A Struggle Between Darkness and Light is a high-energy homage to the essence of Beethoven's music. Composed to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Viennese master's death in 2027, this four-minute marvel pits elegant triadic melody against anxious chromatic lines, creating a Beethovenesque musical drama in miniature form.
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Samuel Adler: Sixth String Quartet
Medium Voice & String Quartet | Sheet Music Download
Subtitled A Whitman Serenade. The singer needs the full score to perform this work.
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