Leon Sametini Explained

Leon Sametini
Birth Date:16 March 1886
Birth Place:Rotterdam, Netherlands
Death Place:Chicago, Illinois, US
Occupation:Violinist, pedagogue

Leon Sametini (16 March 188620 August 1944) was an American virtuoso violinist and music pedagogue who originated from Rotterdam, Holland.[1] Sametini was born to Samual Sametini and Rose De Groot.[2] 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.[3] In 1902, Sametini went to Prague to study violin for one year with Otakar Ševčík. He also studied with notable teacher Eugène Ysaÿe.[4]

As a violin virtuoso, Sametini gave concert tours from which he became well known in Europe, particularly in the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Austria.[5] He was a protégé of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands who enabled him to continue his studies in Prague under Otakar Ševčík[6] and she gave him a violin made in 1730 by the Venetian violin maker Sancto Seraphin.

Sametini was a notable violin teacher. Whilst in London he taught Isolde Menges, an English violinist.[7] He eventually settled in Chicago, where he was head of the violin department at the Chicago Musical College.[8] Whilst director of violin, he taught notable students such as Silvestre Revueltas,[9] Aaron Rosand,[10] Harry Adaskin,[11] and Guila Bustabo, who studied with Sametini from the age of five.[12]

On 20 August 1944, Sametini was admitted to the Grant Hospital, Chicago, where he died of a sudden heart attack.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Martens, Frederick H.. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers. Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1919. New York. 198.
  2. Book: Vlekke. Bernard Hubertus Maria. Hollanders who Helped Build America. Beets. Henry. 1942. American Biographical Company. 198. en. Leon Sametini, a son of Samual Sametini and Rose De Groot, studied in the Netherlands under his uncle, M. De Groot, F. Togni and Bram Eldering of Amsterdam..
  3. Book: Saleski, Gdal . Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race: Biographical Sketches of Outstanding Figures of Jewish Origin in the Musical World . Bloch publishing Company . 1933 . 247–248 . 28001684.
  4. Somerford . Peter. 1 September 2019. Mutual exchange - Obituaries . Strad. 130. 1553. 14. From the age of twelve he studied at the Chicago Music College with Leon Sametini, a student of Ševčík and Ysaÿe....
  5. Web site: The Project Gutenberg eBook of Violin Mastery, by Frederick H. Martens. . 2023-01-17 . www.gutenberg.org . 198 . It is to be regretted that he has not played in public in the United States as often as in Europe, where his extensive tournées in Holland—Leon Sametini is a Hollander by birth—Belgium, England and Austria have established his reputation as a virtuoso,....
  6. Book: Vlekke . Bernard Hubertus Maria . Hollanders who Helped Build America . Beets . Henry . 1942 . American Biographical Company . 198 . en . As a protégé of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, he was enabled to continue his studies under Sevcik at the Conservatory at Prague....
  7. Book: The Strad . 1994 . Lavendar Publications . 105 . 617 . en . ca05002289 . Menges (1893-1976) studied with Leon Sametini and Emile Sauret but was principally a student of Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg..
  8. Book: Grauer, Michael . Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man . 2016-08-15 . University of North Texas Press . 978-1-57441-633-6 . 344 . en . Noted violinist Leon Sametini taught at Chicago Music College. Leon Sametini was the director of violin at the Chicago Music College..
  9. Parker . Robert . 2004 . Revueltas, the Chicago Years . Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana . 25 . 2 . 180–194 . 10.1353/lat.2004.0018 . 3598727 . 191266177 . 0163-0350 . Leon Sametini, Silvestre's violin teacher at the time, was among seven violin faculty members included in the 1919 commencement program..
  10. Web site: Faculty Bios by Name . 2009 . International Narcotics Control Board . 2023-01-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120909205158/http://www.curtis.edu/faculty/faculty-bios-by-name/aaron-rosand.html . Curtis Institute of Music. 9 September 2012 . Aaron Rosand, world-renowned violin virtuoso and pedagogue, carries on the tradition of Leopold Auer and Eugène Ysaÿe, having studied with their disciples Efrem Zimbalist and Leon Sametini..
  11. Book: Ford, Clifford . Canada's Music: An Historical Survey . 1982 . GLC Publishers . 978-0-88874-054-0 . 129 . en . Harry Adaskin was born in Riga, Latvia and studied with von Kunits and Arthur Hartmann in Toronto, Leon Sametini in Chicago and with Marcel Chailley in Paris..
  12. Vallois . Nathaniel . February 2004 . Hostage to fortune . Strad . 115 . 1366 . 128–132 . As young Guila's talent became more apparent, mother and five-year old daughter moved to Chicago to pursue violin studies with Leon Sametini, a pupil of Ysaÿe. . EBSCOhost.
  13. Book: Violins and Violinists Magazine . 1944 . William Lewis & son . 6 . 135 . en . 39032588.

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