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Robert Sammut

Article submitted by Josef Ebejer

 

Robert Sammut composer of the National Anthem L-Innu Malti was born in Floriana on the 17th October 1869. He was a doctor by profession, having studied at the University of Malta from where he graduated in medicine. He followed post graduate studies in Edinburgh and he eventually was appointed professor of pathology.

Sammut played with an amateur orchestra and wrote the music for a hymn to be performed by it. The King's Own Band of Valletta took up this music and Dun Karm Psaila, the National Poet, set later lyrics to it.

This was the genesis of the national anthem, which was first performed as such in public at the Manoel Theatre in 1919. Sammut died in Sliema on the 26th May 1934.










 

 

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