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How did Samuel Barber become famous?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Barber was a composer of many types of music (orchestra, Opera, choral, piano, etc.) and has won two Pulitzer prizes for music. He is perhaps best known for his Adagio for Strings.

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