Samuel Barber II (1910 – 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral and piano music. His Adagio for Strings became his most famous composition and is widely considered a masterwork of modern classical music.
The piece has been used in numerous television programmes and films but is perhaps best know for it's use in Oliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam film, 'Platoon'.
Barber's music was championed by a remarkable range of renowned artists, musicians, and conductors including Vladimir Horowitz, John Browning, Martha Graham, Arturo Toscanini, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Jennie Tourel, and Eleanor Steber.
"Samuel Barber's music, masterfully crafted and built on romantic structures and sensibilities, is at once lyrical, rhythmically complex, and harmonically rich.” - Official biography
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