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Adagio For Strings by Samuel Barber

Biografie van de kunstenaar Samuel Barber

Samuel Osborne Barber March 9 1910–January 23 1981 Was An American Composer Of Classical Music Best Known For His Adagio For Strings. He Was Born In West Chester Pennsylvania And Began To Compose At The Age Of Seven. He Studied At The Curtis Institute Of Music In Philadelphia Before Becoming A Fellow Of The American Academy In Rome In 1935. The Following Year He Wrote His String Quartet In B Minor The Second Movement Of Which He Would Arrange At Arturo Toscanini's Suggestion For String Orchestra As Adagio For Strings And Again For Mixed Chorus As Agnus Dei. He Tended To Avoid The Experimentalism Of Some Other American Composers Of His Generation Preferring Relatively Traditional Harmonies And Forms Until Late In His Life. Most Of His Work Is Lushly Melodic And Has Often Been Described As Neo-Romantic Though Some Of His Later Works Notably The Third Essay And The Dance Of Vengeance Display A Masterful Use Of Percussive Effects Modernism And Neo-Stravinskian Effects. His Songs Accompanied By Piano Or Orchestra Are Among The Most Popular 20th-Century Songs In The Classical Repertoire. They Include A Setting Of Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach Originally Written For String Quartet And Baritone The Hermit Songs On Anonymous Irish Texts Of The 8th To 13th Centuries And Knoxville Summer Of 1915 Written For The Soprano Eleanor Steber And Based On An Autobiographical Text By James Agee The Introductory Portion Of His Novel A Death In The Family. Barber Possessed A Good Baritone Voice And For A While Considered Becoming A Professional Singer. He Made A Few Recordings Including His Own Dover Beach. His Piano Sonata Op. 26 1949 A Piece Commissioned By Richard Rodgers And Irving Berlin Was First Performed By Vladimir Horowitz. It Was The First Large-Scale American Piano Work To Be Premiered By Such An Internationally Renowned Pianist. Barber Composed Three Operas. Vanessa Composed To A Libretto By Gian Carlo Menotti His Partner Both Professionally And Personally Premiered At The Metropolitan Opera In New York City. It Was A Critical And Popular Success And Barber Won A Pulitzer Prize For It. At The European Premiere It Met With A Chillier Reception However And Is Now Little Played There Although It Remains Popular In America. Barber Produced Three Concertos For Solo Instruments And Orchestra. The First Was For Violin. The Second Was For Cello. And The Third And Last Was For Piano. The Violin Concerto Was Written In 1939 And 1940 In Sils-Maria Switzerland And Paris. The Work Was Premiered By Violinist Albert Spalding With The Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted By Eugene Ormandy On February 11 1941. The Concerto Soon Entered The Standard Violin And Orchestral Repertoire. The Cello Concerto Was Completed In 1945. It Was Commissioned By The Boston Symphony Orchestra For The Russian Cellist Raya Garbousova Who Premiered It On April 5 1946. The Following Year The Work Won Barber The New York Music Critics' Circle Award. The Piano Concerto Was Composed For And Premiered By Pianist John Browning On September 24 1962 With Erich Leinsdorf Conducting The Boston Symphony Orchestra At Lincoln Center New York. The Work Was Met With Great Critical Acclaim. It Won Barber His Second Pulitzer Prize In 1963 And The Music Critics Circle Award In 1964. John Browning Played The Piece Over 500 Times In His Career Securing Its Place In The Repertoire. Barber Also Wrote A Virtuosic Work For Organ And Orchestra Toccata Festiva For The Famed Organist E. Power Biggs In The Early 1960s. The New York Philharmonic Commissioned An Oboe Concerto But Barber Completed Only The Slow Central Canzonetta Before His Death. Among His Purely Orchestral Works There Are Two Symphonies 1936 And 1944 The Overture The School For Scandal 1932 Three Essays For Orchestra 1938 1942 And 1978 And The Late Fadograph Of A Yestern Scene 1973 . There Are Also Large-Scale Choral Works Including The Prayers Of Kierkegaard 1954 Based On The Writings Of The Danish Existential Theologian Søren Kierkegaard And The Lovers 1971 Based On Twenty Poems Of Love And A Song Of Despair By Pablo Neruda. In Addition To The Sonata His Piano Works Include Excursions Op. 20 Three Sketches Souvenirs And Various Other Single Pieces. Never A Prolific Composer Barber Wrote Much Less After The Critical Failure Of His Opera Antony And Cleopatra. This Had A Libretto By Film And Opera Director Franco Zeffirelli And Had Been Commissioned To Open The New Metropolitan Opera House At Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts In 1966. The Opera Was More Favorably Received In 1975 Presented In The Intimate Setting Of The Juilliard School With The Partnership And Stage Direction Of Gian-Carlo Menotti And Was Subsequently Recorded. He Died In New York City In 1981.

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"Adagio For Strings" Was Written By American Composer Samuel Barber. It Is Barber's Best-Known Composition Although It Was Not One Of His Pulitzer Prize Winners. The Adagio Is A Re-Arrangement Of The Slow Second Movement Of Barber's "String Quarter Op. 11." Barber Was Only 26 When The Adagio Was Performed In 1938 By Arturo Toscanini's Famed NBC Symphony Orchestra. At The End Of The First Rehearsal Toscanini Remarked "Simple & Beautiful!" This Was Especially Amazing Because He Rarely Conducted Pieces By American Composers. At First Barber Knew None Of This And Was Angry With Toscanini Who Had Returned The Score To Barber Without Comment. Only Later Did Barber Realize This Had Occurred Because Toscanini Had Already Memorized The Score! In 1965 Barber Rewrote The Score For An 8-Person Choir As Part Of His Religious Work "Agnus Dei." The Work Has Been Part Of Many Famous Performances Besides Toscanini's 1. It Was Played During The Funerals Of Princess Grace & Alfred Einstein. 2. It Was Played In Britain's Royal Albert Hall During A 2001 Tribute To The 9-11 Victims. 3. It Was Played On National Radio As Part Of The Announcement Of President Franklin Roosevelt's Death.

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