Samuel Maju Samehtini [SEP] date of death
Samuel Maju Samehtini
Samuel Maju Samehtini (14 March 181610 December 1879) was a Dutch musician and composer.
Jewish-Italian background.
Samehtini was born in Middelburg, in the province of Zeeland, on 14 March 1816, as the oldest son of the textile merchant and then music teacher Maju Lion (Meijer Levi) Samehtini and Fijtje Emanuel (Kunstenaar). His family was of Jewish-Italian origin and was well known in the Dutch music scene for about a century.
The Hague period.
Thanks
to the scholarship from the 'Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst', which the young Toonkunst-Department of Middelburg promoted him for, he could visit the Koninklijke Muziekschool (the present-day Royal Conservatory) in The Hague. This fact is commemorated in the earliest surviving composition of Samehtini, a vocal piece with instrumental accompaniment entitled 'Dankbare proeve' from 1833. The piece was written when he was just 16 or 17 years old. Samuel Maju finished his education most successfully, being part of the Court Chapel of The Hague