Samuel Barber

1910 - 1981

2 upcoming concerts with music by Samuel Barber and 76 in total on Live Klassisk.

Samuel Osmond Barber II was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century. Principally influenced by nine years' composition studies with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute and more than 25 years' study with his uncle, the composer Sidney Homer, Barber's music usually eschewed the experimental trends of musical modernism in favor of traditional 19th-century harmonic language and formal structure embracing lyricism and emotional expression. However, he adopted elements of modernism after 1940 in some

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Most played works

Works by Samuel Barber on Live Klassisk, counted across all 76 concerts. Upcoming ones first.

• Adagio for strygereOp. 11 · 20 concerts · 2 upcoming
• Summer MusicOp. 31 · 15 concerts
• CellosonateOp. 6 · 4 concerts
• ViolinkoncertOp. 14 · 3 concerts
• Toccata FestivaOp. 36 · 2 concerts
• The CoolinOp. 42 No. 2 · 2 concerts
• StrygekvartetOp. 11 · 2 concerts
• Mélodies passagèresOp. 27 · 2 concerts
• Dover BeachOp. 3 · 2 concerts
• To Be Sung on the WaterOp. 42 No. 2 · 1 concerts