Back to category: Music Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. 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... Posted by: Chad Boger Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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