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Samuel Barber

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 of his compositions, such as an increased use of dissonance and chromaticism in the Cello Concerto and Medea's Dance of Vengeance; and the use of tonal ambiguity and a narrow use of serialism in his Piano Sonata, Prayers of Kierkegaard, and Nocturne. Barber was adept at both instrumental and vocal music. His works became successful on the international stage and many of his compositions enjoyed rapid adoption into the classical performance canon. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barber) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

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Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

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Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (Live)

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

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Adagio For Strings Op.11

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Adagio for Strings

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Adagio For Strings

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Eugene Ormandy & Friends (feat. Béla Bartók, Franz Liszt, Jean Sibelius & Ludwig van Beethoven)

2025

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Pointillé, Vol. 2

2024

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Bernstein: Barber – Beethoven

2023

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Music for Meditation

2025

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Home

2024

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Unspoken

2023

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Sibelius & Barber: Violin Concertos (feat. Jean Sibelius & Samuel Barber)

2025

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A Cadence of Classical Elegance

2024

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Kernis: Air for Violin; Barber: Violin Concerto; Bloch: Baal Shem; Walton: Violin Concerto

2024

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Barber: Piano Works

2024

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Dover Beach, Op. 3

Single • 2025

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Adagio for Strings

Single • 2023

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Barber: Fresh from West Chester: II. Let's Sit It Out, I'd Rather Watch

Single • 2022

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Adagio for Strings

Single • 2025

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Adagio for String op. 11

Single • 2023

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Barber: Sure on This Shining Night, Op. 13 No. 3 (Arr. Parkin for Cello and Piano)

Single • 2021

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Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14: III. Presto in moto perpetuo

Single • 2025

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Three Songs, Op. 2: I. The Daisies

Single • 2022

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Barber: Adagio for Strings - slowed + reverb

Single • 2024

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Hermit Songs, Op. 29: X. The Desire for Hermitage

Single • 2022

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Adagio for Strings

Tiësto & Samuel Barber • 8.9M views

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Agnus Dei - Samuel Barber LIVE

Vlaams Radiokoor • 14M views

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BARBER Adagio for Strings

Detroit Symphony Orchestra • 4.1M views

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Saddest Song Ever, Barber's Adagio, Theme from Platoon, Andrzej Kucybała conductor

Akademia Filmu i Telewizji • 10M views

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Adagio For Strings - Tiësto - Our Story - 15 years of Tomorrowland

MKOCZ • 5M views

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CHROMALUME I: Adagio for Strings and Singers (Samuel Barber)

Goodhart's Music • 707K views

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Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Samuel Barber, Vienna Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel • 1.6M views

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Barber - AGNUS DEI (arr. Adagio for Strings) - Laurens Symfonisch - LIVE

Laurens Vocaal • 2.9M views

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Ukrainian Choir :"Agnus Dei"(Alleluia Almighty).

Timothy. Worship • 517 views

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William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings

TMF90Dance • 2M views

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Adagio

Playlist • YouTube Music

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Essential Classical

Playlist • YouTube Music

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