“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.
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Study score
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for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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for: Flute, Oboe, 2 Trumpets and Strings
Score
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for: Organ, piano
Piano reduction
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 302956
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 318345
for: Voice (baritone), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 318343
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 318249
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317446
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 395389
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 318254
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 318214
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 904263
Study Score
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 697053
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 318374
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: SATB + Orchestra
Score
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for: Woodwind ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487469
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 318426
for: Voice Duet
Book
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for: SATB and Brass Timpani Organ
Choir score
Item no.: 317483
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 318344
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 563914
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 311158
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 175175
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 318796
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 318761
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 318237
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 697323
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 697274
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 763359
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896269
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904478
for: Concert Band and Soprano
Score
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for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 900660
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 854064
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 400840
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 312776
2. Satz aus dem Streichquartett op.11
für Akkordeonorchester
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 679491
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
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for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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for: Concert band
Score
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for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 897538
for: Chamber orchestra
Score
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