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 yea
Childhood home of Samuel Barber in West Chester, Pennsylvania
Samuel Barber's grave, on the left, at Oaklands Cemetery outside West Chester. The plot on the right had been purchased for Gian Carlo Menotti; as he did not use it, a stone inscribed "To the Memory of Two Friends" was erected there instead.