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Samuel Barber

Xyoo 1924-28 nws kawm nrog IA Vengerova (piano), R. Scalero (suab paj nruag), F. Reiner (ua), E. de Gogorz (singing) ntawm Curtis Institute of Music hauv Philadelphia, qhov uas nws tom qab qhia instrumentation thiab choral. kev ua haujlwm (1939-42). Rau qee lub sijhawm nws tau ua tus hu nkauj (baritone) thiab tus thawj coj ntawm nws tus kheej ua haujlwm hauv cov nroog nyob sab Europe, suav nrog kev ua koob tsheej (Hereford, 1946). Barber yog tus sau ntau yam haujlwm ntawm ntau yam. Hauv nws cov nkauj piano thaum ntxov, kev cuam tshuam ntawm kev nyiam romantic thiab SV Rachmaninoff tau tshwm sim, hauv cov suab paj nruag - los ntawm R. Strauss. Tom qab ntawd, nws tau txais cov ntsiab lus ntawm cov qauv tshiab ntawm cov tub ntxhais hluas B. Bartok, thaum ntxov IF Stravinsky thiab SS Prokofiev. Barber's mature style yog tus cwj pwm los ntawm kev sib xyaw ntawm kev nyiam romantic nrog neoclassical nta.

Barber cov hauj lwm zoo tshaj plaws yog qhov txawv los ntawm kev paub zoo ntawm daim ntawv thiab kev nplua nuj ntawm kev ntxhib los mos; orchestral tej hauj lwm - nrog cov txheej txheem ci ntsa iab (ua los ntawm A. Toscanini, A. Kusevitsky thiab lwm tus neeg ua haujlwm loj), piano ua haujlwm - nrog kev nthuav qhia pianistic, suab - nrog rau tam sim no ntawm cov duab embodiment, kev hais lus thiab suab paj nruag recitation.

Ntawm Barber cov lus sau thaum ntxov, qhov tseem ceeb tshaj plaws yog: 1st symphony, Adagio rau txoj hlua orchestra (kev npaj ntawm 2nd txav ntawm 1st string quartet), sonata rau piano, concerto rau violin thiab orchestra.

Nrov yog lub suab paj nruag-ua yeeb yam ua yeeb yam Vanessa raws li zaj dab neeg kev hlub (ib qho ntawm ob peb American operas staged ntawm Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1958). Nws suab paj nruag yog cim los ntawm kev puas siab puas ntsws, melodiousness, qhia ib tug tej yam ze rau kev ua hauj lwm ntawm "verists", ntawm ib sab, thiab lub lig operas ntawm R. Strauss, ntawm qhov tod tes.

Cov khoom xyaw:

Ua yeeb yam — Vanessa (1958) thiab Antony thiab Cleopatra (1966), chamber opera Choj Party (Ib Tes ntawm choj, Spoleto, 1959); pov pob – “Tus nab lub siab” (Lub plawv nab, 1946, 2nd edition 1947; raws li nws – lub orchestral suite “Medea”, 1947), “Blue Rose” (A blue rose, 1957, not post.); rau lub suab thiab orchestra – “Andromache's farewell” (Andromache's farewell, 1962), “Cov lovers” (Cov lovers, tom qab P. Neruda, 1971); rau orchestra – 2 symphonies (1st, 1936, 2nd edition – 1943; 2nd, 1944, new edition – 1947), overture to the play “School of Scandal” by R. Sheridan (1932), “Festive Toccata” ( Toccata festiva, 1960). , “Fadograph from a yestern scene” (Fadograph from a yestern scene, after J. Joyce, 1971), concerts nrog orchestra - rau piano (1962), violin (1939), 2 rau cello (1946, 1960), ballet suite "Cov Khoom Plig" (Cov Khoom Plig, 1953); Chamber compositions - Capricorn Concerto rau flute, oboe thiab trumpet nrog hlua orchestra (1944), 2 hlua quartets (1936, 1948), "Lub caij ntuj sov suab paj nruag" (Lub caij ntuj sov suab paj nruag, rau woodwind quintet), sonatas (rau sonata rau cello thiab piano, nrog rau "Suab paj nruag rau ib qho chaw ntawm Shelley" - Suab paj nruag rau ib qho chaw ntawm Shelley, 1933, American Rome nqi zog 1935); pawg hu nkauj, lub voj voog ntawm cov nkauj nyob rau tom ntej. J. Joyce thiab R. Rilke, cantata Kierkegaard's Prayers (Thov Vajtswv ntawm Kjerkegaard, 1954).

References: Kwv Tij N., Samuel Barber, NY, 1954.

V. Yus. Delson