“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 Solo
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 317920
For Strings op. 11
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 395390
Piano Large Works
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395297
Vocal Collection
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 578080
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 317448
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 311158
With an audio CD of orchestral performances of each excerpt, plus practice tracks
for: Timpani
Item no.: 565170
For Strings op. 11
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 395389
Schirmer Choral Classics
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896269
Vocal Large Works
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 395252
Opera in Three Acts op. 40
Lyric book
Item no.: 1654055
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 395391
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1671874
The Composer and His Music
Second Edition
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1668626
Study Score No. 28
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 395382
revised version 2014
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 395378
Transcribed from Adagio For Strings
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 241282
2 Copies needed to perform
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317094
Vocal Collection
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 578081
Arranged for piano by Lawrence Rosen
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 185528
corrected revised version
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 395386
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1681327
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 170410
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