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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 9 March 1910
- Died
- 23 January 1981
- Place of birth
- West Chester
- Place of death
- New York City, Manhattan
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Barber
- Mother
- Marguerite McLeod Barber
- Occupation
- composer, musicologist, pianist, conductor, musician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Rome Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Edward MacDowell Medal, Joseph H. Bearns Prize
- archives at
- Library of Congress Music Division
- birth name
- Samuel Osmond Barber II
- cause of death
- cancer
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), BEIC Digital Library, Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- has works in the collection
- Tate
- instrument
- piano
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- list of works
- list of compositions by Samuel Barber
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Samuel Barber
- notable work
- Cello Concerto, Adagio for Strings, Agnus Dei, Violin Concerto, Antony and Cleopatra, Capricorn Concerto, Hermit Songs, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Piano Concerto, Piano Sonata, Prayers of Kierkegaard
- place of burial
- Oaklands Cemetery
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Samuel Barber
- start of work period
- 1917
- student
- Charles Turner
- student of
- Rosario Scalero
- topic's main category
- Category:Samuel Barber
- unmarried partner
- Gian Carlo Menotti
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