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Samuel Barber, An American Composer

Samuel Barber, An American Composer


On March 9, 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Samuel Osborne

Barber II was born. His father was a prominent doctor. Barber’s musical

ability emerged at an early age. At the age of 6 he began studying the piano.

At the age of 7, Barber wrote his first composition and at the age of 10 he

attempted his first opera and served as a church organist while still in his

teens, and developed his attractive baritone voice to the point where he

thought to become a professional singer. At the age of 14 he was one of the

first students to attend the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in which

he studied composition with Rosario Scalero, piano with Isabelle

Vengerova, and voice with Emilio de Gogorza. Later on, he also studied

conducting with Fritz Reiner and eventually returned to the Institute to

teach orchestration and composition before he became a fellow of the

American Academy in Rome i...

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