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Samuel Barber

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Samuel Barber Famous memorial Veteran

Birth
West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
23 Jan 1981 (aged 70)
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.9803843, Longitude: -75.6210816
Plot
Section C, Lot 2
Memorial ID
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Composer. Wrote and scored symphonies, concerti, operas, chamber works, choral works and songs, winning two Pulitzer Prizes in the process. His most famous work is the "Adagio for Strings". Barber's will provided for a burial plot next to his own, reserved for composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti, Barber's partner for most of his adult life. Further, the will said that if Menotti chose not to be buried in Oaklands Cemetery (he is buried near his last home in Scotland), a stone should be placed on the empty plot and inscribed with the words "To The Memory Of Two Friends."
Composer. Wrote and scored symphonies, concerti, operas, chamber works, choral works and songs, winning two Pulitzer Prizes in the process. His most famous work is the "Adagio for Strings". Barber's will provided for a burial plot next to his own, reserved for composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti, Barber's partner for most of his adult life. Further, the will said that if Menotti chose not to be buried in Oaklands Cemetery (he is buried near his last home in Scotland), a stone should be placed on the empty plot and inscribed with the words "To The Memory Of Two Friends."


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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Added: Jan 24, 2000
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8288/samuel-barber: accessed ), memorial page for Samuel Barber (9 Mar 1910–23 Jan 1981), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8288, citing Oaklands Cemetery, West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.