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Samuel Barber
Born: 9th March 1910, Pennsylania, U.S.A
Died: 23rd January 1981, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Samuel Osmond Barber II was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century. Principally influenced by nine years' composition studies with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute and more than 25 years' study with his uncle, the composer Sidney Homer, Barber's music usually eschewed the experimental trends of musical modernism in favor of traditional 19th-century harmonic language and formal structure embracing lyricism and emotional expression. However, he adopted elements of modernism after 1940 in some of his compositions, such as an increased use of dissonance and chromaticism in the Cello Concerto (1945) and Medea's Dance of Vengeance (1955); and the use of tonal ambiguity and a narrow use of serialism in his Piano Sonata (1949), Prayers of Kierkegaard (1954), and Nocturne (1959).
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Popular Works: Barber
- A Slumber Song of the Madonna (5)
- A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15 (3)
- Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (25)
- Agnus Dei (3)
- Andromache's Farewell, Op. 39 (2)
- Beggar's Song (3)
- Commando March (3)
- Death of Cleopatra (from Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40) (3)
- Dover Beach, Op. 3 (3)
- First Essay for Orchestra Op. 12 (4)
- Give Me Some Music (from Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40) (3)
- Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes the Veil Op. 13, No. 1 (4)
- Hermit Songs, Op. 29 (4)
- Hey Nonny No! (4)
- In the Dark Pinewood (3)
- Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 (5)
- Love at the door (3)
- Love Song (3)
- Love's Caution (3)
- Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Op.32a (3)
- Mélodies passagères (5), Op. 27 (4)
- Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel (4)
- Night Wanderers (3)
- Of that so sweet imprisonment (3)
- Piano Sonata, Op. 26 (3)
- Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17 (3)
- Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 1 (3)
- Serenades (3)
- Souvenirs, Op. 28 (5)
- Strings in the Earth and Air (5)
- Sure on this shining night, Op. 13 No. 3 (15)
- Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (3)
- The Daisies (3)
- The Monk and His Cat (No. 8 from Hermit Songs) (3)
- There's Nae Lark (3)
- To Be Sung on the Water, Op. 42 (3)
- Under the Willow Tree (5)
- Vanessa (3)
- With rue my heart is laden, Op. 2 No. 2 (2)
- Wondrous Love Op.34 (2)
Recent Best Sellers: Barber
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Quantity deal. Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei: Music of Inner HarmonyVocal Score (SATB)Sheet Music: $3.25
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Quantity deal. Samuel Barber: Reincarnations - Complete EditionVocal Score (SATB)Sheet Music: $9.00
