Brief synopsis' of the most popular
classical music
compositions by Samuel Barber...
American, West Chester, PA 9 MAR 1910 ~ NYC, 23 JAN 1981
Operas, Ballets, Orchestral Pieces
Concertos, Vocal Works, Chamber, Choral and Piano Pieces
Barber Adagio for
Strings
Written in 1936 as part of his first string quartet. The orchestral
version was FP by the NBC Sym Orch under Arturo Toscanini in November of
1938.
Barber, Samuel Capricorn Concerto
Barber born in West Chester, PA 1910 d- 1981. Composed in 1944. FP October 8, 1944
by Seidenburg Little Sym Orch..
Named after a house he lived in at Mt. Kisco NY.
Barber Commando March
Samuel Barber was attached to an Army Air Corps Band unit in 1943. During
this period he composed a piece he dedicated to the new soldier called
The Commando.
Barber Fadograph of a
Yestern Scene
Barber Piano Concerto,
Op. 38
Barber Symphony No 1
Barber Symphony No 2
Barber Violin Concerto
(1939) FP 1941 with Eugene Ormandy cond. The Phila. Orch. Albert Spaulding, violin
soloist.
Barber Three Essays For Orchestra
Barber First Essay
for
Orch
Barber Second Essay
for
Orch
Barber Toccata Festiva
Barber The Lovers
Barber Medea
Samuel Barber wrote Medea as a ballet for Martha Graham. Neither
conceived their ballet as a literal interpretation of the mythical greek
tragedy, the Medea-Jason legend of jealousy and revenge, but as
psycological states of those acts.
Barber Overture to The School for Scandal His opus 5, composed in 1931, in Italy while visiting composer Gian
Carlo Menotti. FP at the Philadelphia Orchestra "Pops" summer concert at
Robin Hood Dell in 1933. The first piece to be publicly performed of
Barber.
