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About
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).
Top Tracks
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Violin Concerto, Op. 14 : Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14: II. Andante
Barber: Violin Concerto / Korngold: Violin Concerto; Much Ado About Nothing
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Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 14 : Barber: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 14: I. Allegro
Barber: Violin Concerto / Korngold: Violin Concerto; Much Ado About Nothing
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Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 14 : Barber: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 14: III. Presto in moto perpetuo
Barber: Violin Concerto / Korngold: Violin Concerto; Much Ado About Nothing
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Fresh from West Chester : Barber: Fresh from West Chester: II. Let's Sit It Out, I'd Rather Watch
Barber: Fresh from West Chester: II. Let's Sit It Out, I'd Rather Watch
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Together (Adagio For Strings)
Together (Adagio For Strings)
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Barber: Souvenirs, Op. 28: IV. Two-Step (Tea in the Palm Court)
Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14 & Piano Concerto, Op. 38
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Barber: Excursions, Op. 20: IV. Allegro molto
Barber: Piano Music
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Barber: Nocturne 'Homage to John Field', Op. 33
My Life in Music
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Together (Adagio For Strings) (Extended Mix)
Together (Adagio For Strings)
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Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 22: III. Molto allegro e appassionata
Classical Cello Music
