Samuel Antek (May 1, 1909[1] – January 27, 1958[2]) was a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Arturo Toscanini.
Antek was also a conductor and served as music director for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra from 1947 to 1958.
Antek's untimely death led Reiner to appoint Walter Hendl, then music director of the Dallas Symphony, to this position.
Antek wrote a series of essays about Toscanini, describing the famed Italian conductor from the point of view of an orchestral musician.
[3] An earlier piece about Toscanini by Antek, "Playing with the Maestro", appeared in Saturday Review magazine in the early 1950s.