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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]
Chamber music: 31: 1956: Summer Music for Wind Quintet: for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon Chamber music: 1960s: Chorale for Washington Cathedral: for brass and timpani Chamber music: 38a: 1961: Canzone: for flute or violin, and piano: composer's arrangement of the Piano Concerto, Op. 38, movement II Chamber music: 1967: Mutations from ...
Hermit Songs is a cycle of ten songs for voice and piano by Samuel Barber.Written in 1953 on a grant from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, it takes as its basis a collection of anonymous poems written by Irish monks and scholars from the 8th to the 13th centuries, in translations by W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Howard Mumford Jones, Kenneth H. Jackson and Seán Ó Faoláin.
Barber's Adagio for Strings was originally the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, composed in 1936 while he was spending a summer in Europe with Gian Carlo Menotti, an Italian composer and Barber's partner since their student years at the Curtis Institute of Music. [3] Barber was inspired by Virgil's didactic poem Georgics.
Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings (1936). In 1967, he set the Latin words of the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, for mixed chorus with optional organ or piano accompaniment. The music, in B-flat minor, has a duration of about eight minutes.
In late 2010, previously unpublished letters written by Fels, Barber, and Albert Meiff (Briselli's violin coach in that period) from the Samuel Simeon Fels Papers archived at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania became available to the public. [2] Barber accepted Fels's advance [3] and went to Switzerland to work on the concerto. Barber ...
The sonata is in four movements, and usually takes twenty minutes to perform: Allegro energico; Allegro vivace e leggero; Adagio mesto; Fuga: Allegro con spirito; The sonata is very difficult to play; [15] Barber, himself a pianist, was unable to adequately play it, [16] [17] and the Music Library Association noted in 1986 that the sonata was "once considered almost too demanding a work". [18]
Before composing his Piano Sonata, Samuel Barber was asked by Jeanne Behrend, a personal friend of his and an accomplished pianist, to write a longer, more involved piece for piano that “would be appropriate to perform on one of her programs of American music.” [3] Barber obliged, and in June 1942 the first movement of Excursions was completed.