Samuel Barber

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This paper discusses Samuel Barber as an important composer of works for piano. It examines one of his most lush works for the piano, Piano Sonata Op. 20 ("Excursions"). It looks at how this work, like his other compositions, was essentially neo-romantic in form, affect and idiom. The paper focuses on two of the Sonata's four movements.

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"Although Samuel Barber is best known for his Adagio for Strings which he wrote as the slow movement of a string quartet, he was also an important composer of works for piano. This paper examines one of his most lush works for piano, "Piano Sonata Op Excursions".

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