Samuel Barber

Barber in 1944

Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. Barber is well-known because of his 1936 work Adagio for Strings. It received positive reviews. Barber won two Pulitzer Prizes for his works.

Barber was born on March 9, 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Curtis Institute for Music. Barber was gay. He lived with Gian Carlo Menotti for 30 years.

Barber died on January 23, 1981 in New York City, New York from cancer. He was 70. He is buried in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

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  Childhood home of Samuel Barber in West Chester, Pennsylvania

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  Samuel Barber's grave, on the left, at Oaklands Cemetery outside West Chester. The plot on the right had been purchased for Gian Carlo Menotti; as he did not use it, a stone inscribed "To the Memory of Two Friends" was erected there instead.

Other websites

• Heyman, Barbara B (1992). Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509058-6
• Wittke, Paul. Samuel Barber. G. Schirmer Inc.
• Brévignon, Pierre. 2011. Samuel Barber, un nostalgique entre deux mondes. Archived 2012-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Paris: Editions Hermann. ISBN 978-2-7056-8186-9.
• Samuel Osborne Barber Archived 2015-05-09 at the Wayback Machine. IHAS. PBS.
• Smith, Patricia. Barber, Samuel Archived 2005-04-11 at the Wayback Machine. glbtq.com