composer conductor music educator musicologist university professor
He also studied with Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul at the Royal Conservatory of Liège.
In 1871, after conducting an orchestra for some years and (beginning in 1865) directing a series of Popular Concerts in which works by Peter Leonard Leopold Benoit and Anton Rubinstein among others were featured, Samuel resigned and became director of the Ghent Conservatory. He died in Ghent.