Samuel Barber composed for a wide range of forces, but he is his most Romantic and passionate self in his song-writing. Barber set dozens of poems for voice and piano, plus two cycles for voice and instruments: Knoxville, Summer of 1915, to texts by James Agee, and Dover Beach, a setting of the Matthew Arnold poem.
Photo: Samuel Barber, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital ID: van 5a51697
POETS & Writers Set BY Barber
(entered to date)
- Roethke -- Theodore Roethke
- Agee -- James Agee
- Auden -- W. H. Auden
- Jones -- Howard Mumford Jones
- Kallman -- Chester Kallman
- Housman -- A. E. Housman
- Anonymous -- Anonymous
- Stephens -- James Stephens
- Joyce -- James Joyce
- Graves -- Robert Graves
- Prokosch -- Frederic Prokosch
- Horan -- Robert Horan
