1910 - 1981
Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Barber has received more than 1,520,686 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Samuel Barber is the 193rd most popular composer (down from 160th in 2019), the 854th most popular biography from United States (down from 644th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Composer.
Samuel Barber is most famous for composing the "Adagio for Strings" in 1936.
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Among composers, Samuel Barber ranks 193 out of 1,216. Before him are Siegfried Wagner, Luciano Berio, Louis Spohr, Max Reger, Johann Joachim Quantz, and Ludwig Minkus. After him are Michael Praetorius, Jordi Savall, Philippe de Vitry, Gilles Binchois, Francesco Landini, and Karol Szymanowski.
1869 - 1930
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 187
1925 - 2003
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 188
1784 - 1859
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 189
1873 - 1916
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 190
1697 - 1773
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 191
1826 - 1917
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 192
1910 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 193
1571 - 1621
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 194
1941 - Present
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 195
1291 - 1361
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 196
1400 - 1460
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 197
1325 - 1397
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 198
1882 - 1937
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 199
Among people born in 1910, Samuel Barber ranks 30. Before him are Lee Byung-chul, William Hanna, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Nathuram Godse, and Helenio Herrera. After him are Momofuku Ando, Jean Anouilh, August Landmesser, Jean-Louis Barrault, Erich Kempka, and Paul Flory. Among people deceased in 1981, Samuel Barber ranks 24. Before him are Odd Hassel, Joe Louis, Harold Urey, William Saroyan, Omar Bradley, and A. J. Cronin. After him are Georges Brassens, Joseph Murphy, Karl Böhm, Max Delbrück, Mehmet Shehu, and Abel Gance.
1910 - 1987
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 24
1910 - 2001
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 25
1910 - 1995
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 26
1910 - 1945
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 27
1910 - 1949
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 28
1910 - 1997
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 29
1910 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 30
1910 - 2007
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 31
1910 - 1987
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 32
1910 - 1944
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 33
1910 - 1994
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 34
1910 - 1975
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 35
1910 - 1985
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 36
1897 - 1981
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 18
1914 - 1981
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 19
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 20
1908 - 1981
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 21
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 22
1896 - 1981
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 23
1910 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 24
1921 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 25
1898 - 1981
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 26
1894 - 1981
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 27
1906 - 1981
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 28
1913 - 1981
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 29
1889 - 1981
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 30
Among people born in United States, Samuel Barber ranks 854 out of 18,182. Before him are Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Britney Spears (1981), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), James Hetfield (1963), John Lee Hooker (1917), and Paul Allen (1953). After him are Alan Arkin (1934), Bill Bixby (1934), John J. Pershing (1860), Lynn Margulis (1938), Jason Robards (1922), and Kris Kristofferson (1936).
1915 - 2011
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 848
1981 - Present
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 849
1927 - 2020
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 850
1963 - Present
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 851
1917 - 2001
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 852
1953 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 853
1910 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 854
1934 - 2023
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 855
1934 - 1993
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 856
1860 - 1948
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 857
1938 - 2011
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 858
1922 - 2000
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 859
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 860
Among composers born in United States, Samuel Barber ranks 9. Before him are John Cage (1912), Leonard Bernstein (1918), Henry Mancini (1924), Philip Glass (1937), Scott Joplin (1868), and Steve Reich (1936). After him are Jerry Goldsmith (1929), James Horner (1953), Cole Porter (1891), Aaron Copland (1900), Charles Ives (1874), and Alan Silvestri (1950).
1912 - 1992
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 3
1918 - 1990
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 4
1924 - 1994
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 5
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 6
1868 - 1917
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 7
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 8
1910 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 9
1929 - 2004
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 10
1953 - 2015
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 11
1891 - 1964
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 12
1900 - 1990
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 13
1874 - 1954
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 14
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 15