Composer

Samuel Barber

Wrote the Adagio for Strings at twenty-six, which became the piece America plays when something terrible happens, and spent the rest of his life slightly overshadowed by it.

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 (1945) and Medea's Dance of Vengeance (1955); and the use of tonal ambiguity and a narrow use of serialism in his Piano Sonata (1949), Prayers of Kierkegaard (1954), and Nocturne (1959).

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Born
1910-03-09, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USAA Wednesday
Died
1981-01-23, New York, New York, USAA Friday, aged 70
At birth
Sun in Pisces, Moon in Aquarius
Nationality
United States
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1910-03-09, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA · time unknown, noon chart

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Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunPisces18°15′Direct
MoonAquarius23°39′Direct
MercuryAquarius26°39′Direct
VenusAquarius15°32′Direct
MarsTaurus27°11′Direct
JupiterLibra12°16′Retrograde
SaturnAries21°31′Direct
UranusCapricorn24°08′Direct
NeptuneCancer16°38′Retrograde
PlutoGemini24°50′Retrograde

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Death Chart

1981-01-23, New York, New York, USA · time unknown, noon chart

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Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunAquarius3°37′Direct
MoonVirgo14°12′Direct
MercuryAquarius18°28′Direct
VenusCapricorn15°32′Direct
MarsAquarius18°43′Direct
JupiterLibra10°23′Direct
SaturnLibra9°45′Retrograde
UranusScorpio29°23′Direct
NeptuneSagittarius23°49′Direct
PlutoLibra24°20′Direct

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