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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]
This is a list of compositions by Samuel Barber sorted by genre, opus number, date of composition, and title. Genre Opus Date Title Scoring Notes Opera: 32:
In late 2010, previously unpublished letters written by Fels, Barber, and Albert Meiff (Briselli's violin coach in that period) from the Samuel Simeon Fels Papers archived at the Historical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 ...
Vanessa is an American opera in three (originally four) acts by Samuel Barber, opus 32, with an original English libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti.It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958 under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti.
Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40, is an opera in three acts by American composer Samuel Barber.The libretto was prepared by Franco Zeffirelli.It was based on the play Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare and made use of Shakespeare's language exclusively.
Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11.. Barber finished the arrangement in 1936, the same year that he wrote the quartet.
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.
Samuel Barber (1910–1981) was an American composer. Samuel Barber may also refer to: Samuel Barber (minister) (1738?–1811), Irish Presbyterian minister; Sam Barber (1919–1999), American baseball pitcher; Sam Barber (country musician) (born 2003), American country music singer-songwriter