Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber
Samuel Osborne Barber IIwas an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century: music critic Donal Henahan stated that "Probably no other American composer has ever enjoyed such early, such persistent and such long-lasting acclaim."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth9 March 1910
CityWest Chester, PA
CountryUnited States of America
How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,
I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.