Biography
Samuel Barber was born in 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and died in 1981 in New York. As a teenager he was among the first students at the newly founded Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied piano, voice and composition. He became widely known above all for the Adagio for Strings, premiered by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1938, which went on to achieve worldwide popularity. Barber won a Pulitzer Prize for Music for his opera Vanessa (1958) and again for his Piano Concerto (1962). Throughout his life, librettist Gian Carlo Menotti was his closest artistic partner.
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