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Samuel Barber. Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century. [1] Principally influenced by nine years' composition studies with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute and more than 25 ...
- March 9, 1910
- Gian Carlo Menotti
- January 23, 1981 (aged 70)
- List of compositions
Mar 5, 2010 · Barber, Samuel (b. West Chester, Penn., March 9, 1910; d. New York, Jan. 23, 1981) American composer Samuel Barber was a nephew of the celebrated contralto Louise Homer and a protege of the ...
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Feb 13, 2019 · Samuel Barber was only in his mid-twenties when he first wrote the piece as the slow movement to a string quartet in 1936. (He knew he had something special, calling it a "knock-out"; ...
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Mar 5, 2024 · Samuel Barber (born March 9, 1910, West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 23, 1981, New York, New York) was an American composer who is considered one of the most expressive representatives of the lyric and Romantic trends in 20th-century classical music. Barber studied the piano from an early age and soon began to compose.
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Learn about the American composer Samuel Barber, who wrote lyrical and expressive music in the grand style. Discover his early successes, his struggles with modernism, and his masterpieces such as the Adagio For Strings and Vanessa.
Born on March 9, 1910, Samuel Osborne Barber II hailed from an educated, middle-class family in West Chester, Pennsylvania. His parents, Marguerite McLeod Beatty and physician Samuel Leroy Barber, nurtured a household that valued education and culture. While Barber’s father was a doctor, his mother, a pianist by training, belonged to a family ...
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