“There is no reason why music should be difficult for the audience to understand.” Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Although Samuel Barber composed many works, including art song, opera, choral music, chamber music and orchestral music, it is the Adagio for Strings (an arrangement of the second movement of his 1936 String Quartet op.11) for which he is best known. Nonetheless, he is certainly deemed one of the most talented American composers of the 20th century.
Barber began composing at the age of seven. As a nine-year-old, it is supposed that he said to his mother:
“I was meant to be a composer and will be I’m sure. Don’t ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please. ”
Samuel Barber was more than 25 years younger than Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg and his landsman Charles Ives, and is not seen to be part of the musical avant-garde. His works are melodious, and conform to relatively traditional structure and harmony, and are therefore considered more neo-romantic. His Sonata for Piano op.26 in E-Flat Minor, Barber’s most important piano work, is the only work in which he employs the twelve-tone technique used by his younger contemporaries.
After the Adagio for Strings, Barber’s most popular work is the opera Gian Carlo Menotti (his life-partner), which premiered in 1958 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Barber’s opera “Antony and Cleopatra” celebrated its world premier as the inaugural performance at the New Metropolitan Opera in the Lincoln Center in 1966.
Vocal Collection
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 578080
arranged for violin and piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 177765
2 Copies needed to perform
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317094
Score and Parts
for: 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 298948
Vocal Large Works
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 395252
for: 4 voices, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 313921
The Composer and His Music
Second Edition
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 866174
Vocal Collection
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 318858
Vocal Collection
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 578081
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 395242
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 227195
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 582094
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395295
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 395289
Vocal Solo
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 317920
Revised Edition
The American Composers Series
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395374
corrected revised version
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 395386
Score
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 903121
Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901677
Score
for: Voice + Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 318230
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 566095
With an audio CD of orchestral performances of each excerpt, plus practice tracks
for: Timpani
Item no.: 565170
Arranged for organ
With hammond registration.
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 277004
Piano Large Works
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395297
For Strings op. 11
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 395390
Barber's own transcription from the second movement of his Piano Concerto op. 38
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 228789
Set of two copies included
for: 2 pianos
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 317105
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 317448
revised version 2014
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 395378
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 395303
Opera in Three Acts op. 40
Lyric book
Item no.: 1654055
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 558021
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317132
CHOR
No. 2 Of Reincarnations, poems by James Stephens.
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317307
for: Male choir, percussion, brass ensemble
Choir score
Item no.: 317297
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317280
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 395274
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317308
for low voice and piano
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 624857
Choral Music Of Samuel Barber
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317522
Vocal Score
for: Voices, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318168
Opera in 3 Acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318185
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 317305
low or medium voice
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 182766
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1671874
Opera in Three Acts op. 40
Lyric book
Item no.: 1043672
Study Score 15
for: Voice (medium), 2 violins, viola, cello
Study score
Item no.: 304205
Score and Parts
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 607206
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