새뮤얼 바버

소개

새뮤얼 오즈본 바버 2세(Samuel Osborne Barber II, 1910년 3월 9일 ~ 1981년 1월 23일)은 미국 펜실베이니아주 출신의 낭만주의 작곡가이다. 20세기의 가장 뛰어난 작곡가들 중 하나로, "아마도 다른 미국의 작곡가 누구도 그렇게 이른시기부터 오래 지속되는 호평을 받은 적이 없었다"는 평가를 받는다. 퓰리처상 음악 부문을 오페라 'Vanessa'와 오케스트라곡 《현악을 위한 아다지오Adagio for Strings (1936)》로 두 번 수상했다.

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).