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name: "Samuel Barber"
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born: "9 March 1910"
died: "23 January 1981"
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# Samuel Barber

Composer. Born 9 March 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 23 January 1981.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 9 March 1910, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 23 January 1981
- **Also known as:** Samuel Osmond Barber II

## Biography

Samuel Barber was an American composer of orchestral, choral, operatic and piano music. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on 9 March 1910, he studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 1926. His principal collaborator was the composer Gian Carlo Menotti.

Barber received two Pulitzer Prizes for Music, for the opera *Vanessa* (1958) and the Piano Concerto (1963). His Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (1939), supplied the background music for the 2011 film *The Deep Blue Sea* directed by Terence Davies.

He died in New York on 23 January 1981.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Deep Blue Sea* (2011), Fi1m 82, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-deep-blue-sea.md)

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