“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.
First Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904444
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1681327
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317502
for: Unison Voices, Keyboard
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913621
Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901677
Schirmer Choral Classics
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896288
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 302956
Schirmer Choral Classics
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896269
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 317305
Transcribed from Adagio For Strings
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 241282
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 317306
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317521
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317280
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317500
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317446
Choral
for: SATB and Brass Timpani Organ
Choir score
Item no.: 317483
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317447
Choral Music Of Samuel Barber
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317522
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 317448
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for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317546
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 318686
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: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317308
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899519
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904478
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 318889
Vocal Ensemble
for: Voice Duet
Book
Item no.: 304395
Vocal Solo
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 317062
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 316903
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1671874
Opera in Three Acts op. 40
Lyric book
Item no.: 1043672
Vocal Solo
for: Voice (low), piano
Book
Item no.: 316941
Vocal Solo
for: Medium or Low Voice and Piano
Book
Item no.: 316950
Opera in Three Acts op. 40
Lyric book
Item no.: 1654055
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897620
Arranged for piano by Lawrence Rosen
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 185528
Piano Solo
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395258
Arranged for organ
With hammond registration.
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 277004
low or medium voice
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 182766
Full Score
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 897538
Vocal Large Works
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 185789
From "Die Natali" op. 37
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 173956
Vocal Solo
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 317071
Vocal Solo
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 317069
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