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Samuel Barber

1910 - 1981

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His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Barber is the 194th most popular composer (down from 184th in 2024), the 1,037th most popular biography from United States (down from 823rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Composer.

Samuel Barber is most famous for composing the "Adagio for Strings" in 1936.

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Among Composers

Among composers, Samuel Barber ranks 194 out of 1,451Before him are Ferruccio Busoni, Amilcare Ponchielli, Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Bononcini, Dmitry Kabalevsky, and Stanisław Moniuszko. After him are Michael Praetorius, Niccolò Piccinni, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Luigi Nono, Charles-Marie Widor, and Johann Stamitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Samuel Barber ranks 34Before him are Helenio Herrera, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Ronald Coase, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Kim Yong-sik, and William Hanna. After him are William Shockley, Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Edda Mussolini, Jean Anouilh, Benzion Netanyahu, and Joseph Kasa-Vubu. Among people deceased in 1981, Samuel Barber ranks 28Before him are A. J. Cronin, Eugenio Montale, René Clair, Joseph Murphy, Joe Louis, and Omar Bradley. After him are Georges Brassens, William Saroyan, Miroslav Krleža, Duško Popov, Zarah Leander, and Omar Torrijos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel Barber ranks 1,037 out of NaNBefore him are Linda Hamilton (1956), Bradley Cooper (1975), Melanie Griffith (1957), Bob Beamon (1946), Cuba Gooding Jr. (1968), and Paul L. Modrich (1946). After him are Bing Crosby (1903), John Sherman (1823), Mark Hamill (1951), Neal Cassady (1926), Anne Baxter (1923), and John B. Calhoun (1917).

Among Composers In United States

Among composers born in United States, Samuel Barber ranks 7Before him are George Gershwin (1898), John Williams (1932), John Cage (1912), Leonard Bernstein (1918), Alfred Newman (1900), and Philip Glass (1937). After him are Henry Mancini (1924), Scott Joplin (1868), Angelo Badalamenti (1937), Jerry Goldsmith (1929), James Horner (1953), and Steve Reich (1936).

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