Samuel Barber The Composer and His Music【電子書籍】[ Barbara B. Heyman ]

＜p＞Samuel Barber (1910-1981) was one of the most important and honored American composers of the twentieth century. Writing in a great variety of musical forms--symphonies, concertos, operas, vocal music, and chamber music--he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new vitality. His rich legacy includes such famous compositions as the ＜em＞Adagio for Strings＜/em＞, the orchestral song ＜em＞Knoxville: Summer of 1915＜/em＞, three concertos, and his two operas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ＜em＞Vanessa＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Antony and Cleopatra＜/em＞, a commissioned work that opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Generously documented by letters, sketchbooks, original musical manuscripts, and interviews with friends, colleagues and performers with whom he worked, this is the first book to cover Barber's entire career and all of his compositions. The biographical material on Barber is closely interspersed with a discussion of his music, displaying Barb．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る