List of compositions by Samuel Barber

This is a list of compositions by Samuel Barber sorted by genre, opus number, date of composition, and title.

Genre	Opus	Date	Title	Scoring	Notes
Opera	32	1957–1958	Vanessa		libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Opera	35	1959	A Hand of Bridge		Chamber Opera; libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Opera	40	1966, 1975	Antony and Cleopatra		libretto by Franco Zeffirelli based on the play by William Shakespeare
Ballet		1946	The Serpent Heart	12 instruments	revised as Cave of the Heart; 15-instrument version of Medea
Ballet	23	1947	Cave of the Heart		stage version of Medea
Ballet	23	1946, 1947	Medea		Ballet score
Ballet	28	1953	Souvenirs		Ballet Suite; original for piano 4-hands
Orchestral	1	1928, 1944	Serenade	for string orchestra	original for string quartet
Orchestral	5	1931	Overture to "The School for Scandal"	for orchestra
Orchestral	7	1933	Music for a Scene from Shelley	for orchestra	Tone Picture after Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley[1]
Orchestral	9	1935–1936 1943	(First) Symphony in One Movement	for orchestra
Orchestral	11a	1936	Adagio for Strings	for string orchestra	adaptation of the slow movement of the String Quartet
Orchestral	12	1937	(First) Essay for Orchestra	for orchestra
Orchestral	17	1942	Second Essay for Orchestra	for orchestra
Orchestral	19	1944, 1947	Symphony No. 2	for orchestra	movement II revised as Night Flight (1964)
Orchestral	19a	1944, 1964	Night Flight	for orchestra	revision of Symphony No. 2, movement II
Orchestral		1945	Horizon	for chamber orchestra
Orchestral	23a	1946–1947 1955	Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance	for orchestra	orchestral extract from the ballet Medea
Orchestral		1958	Intermezzo	for orchestra	from the opera Vanessa
Orchestral	37	1960	Die Natali, Chorale Preludes for Christmas	for orchestra
Orchestral	44	1971	A Fadograph of a Yestern Scene	for orchestra	Tone Picture after Finnegans Wake by James Joyce[2]
Orchestral	47	1978	Third Essay	for orchestra
Concert band		1943	Commando March	for band
Concert band		1943	Funeral March	for band
Concertante	14	1939–1940	Violin Concerto	for violin and orchestra
Concertante	21	1944	Capricorn Concerto	for flute, oboe, trumpet and string orchestra
Concertante	22	1945	Cello Concerto	for cello and orchestra
Concertante	36	1960	Toccata Festiva	for organ and orchestra
Concertante	38	1961–1962	Piano Concerto	for piano and orchestra
Concertante	48	1977–1978 1981	Canzonetta	for oboe and string orchestra	orchestrated by Charles Turner in 1981
Chamber music		1922	Gypsy Dance from The Rose Tree	for violin and piano
Chamber music	1	1928	Serenade	for 2 violins, viola and cello	also arranged for string orchestra (1944)
Chamber music	4	(1928)	Violin Sonata in F minor (movement III only)	for violin and piano	movement III (Allegro agitato) discovered in 2006; other movements lost/destroyed; won the 1929 Joseph H. Bearns Prize in Music at Columbia University
Chamber music	6	1932	Cello Sonata	for cello and piano
Chamber music	11	1936	String Quartet in B minor	for 2 violins, viola and cello	slow movement arranged for string orchestra as Adagio for Strings (1936)
Chamber music		1941	Commemorative March	for violin, cello and piano
Chamber music		1947	String Quartet in E major, second mvt. only	for 2 violins, viola and cello	commission from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; 17 extant manuscript pages of movement II.[3]
Chamber music		1954	Adventure	for flute, clarinet, horn, African and oriental percussion instruments (2 players) and harp
Chamber music	31	1956	Summer Music for Wind Quintet	for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
Chamber music		1960s	Chorale for Washington Cathedral	for brass and timpani
Chamber music	38a	1961	Canzone	for flute or violin and piano	composer's arrangement of the Piano Concerto, movement II
Chamber music		1967	Mutations from Bach	for brass and tympani
Carillon		1931	Suite	for carillon
Organ		1925	To Longwood Gardens	for organ
Organ		1927	Prelude and Fugue	for organ
Organ		1936	Chorale for a New Organ	for organ
Organ	34	1959	"Wondrous Love", Variations on a Shape-Note Hymn	for organ
Organ	37	1960	Chorale Prelude on "Silent Night" from Die Natali	for organ
Piano		1917	Melody in F	for piano
Piano		1917	Sadness	for piano
Piano		1918	Largo	for piano
Piano		1918	War Song	for piano
Piano		1919	At Twilight	for piano
Piano		1919	Lullaby	for piano
Piano		1923–1924	3 Sketches Love Song To My Steinway Minuet	for piano
Piano		1924	Fantasie (written in the style of Joseph Haydn)	for 2 pianos
Piano		1925	Prelude to a Tragic Drama	for piano
Piano		1925–1926	Fresh from West Chester (Some Jazzing)	for piano
Piano		1926	Essay III	for piano
Piano		1931	Interlude No. 1 (Adagio for Jeanne)	for piano
Piano		1932	Interlude No. 2	for piano
Piano	20	1944	Excursions	for piano
Piano	26	1948	Piano Sonata	for piano
Piano	28	1953	Souvenirs, Ballet Suite Waltz Schottische Pas de deux Two-Step Hesitation-Tango Galop	for piano 4-hands (original), or piano solo, or 2 pianos	also orchestrated
Piano	33	1959	Nocturne (Homage to John Field)	for piano
Piano		1960s	After the Concert	for piano
Piano	46	1977	Ballade	for piano
Choral		1930	Motetto on Words from the Book of Job	for (double) mixed chorus a cappella	biblical text from the Book of Job
Choral	8	1935–1936 1936	2 Choruses The Virgin Martyrs Let Down the Bars, O Death	1. for female chorus a cappella 2. for mixed chorus a cappella	1. words by Helen Waddell 2. words by Emily Dickinson
Choral		1937	Heaven-Haven		choral adaptation of A Nun Takes the Veil from Op. 13; words by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Choral		1938	Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)	for chorus and organ or piano ad libitum	vocal adaptation of Adagio for Strings
Choral		1938	God's Grandeur	for double mixed chorus a cappella	text by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Choral		1938	Sure on This Shining Night	for mixed chorus and piano	choral adaptation the song from Op. 13; words by James Agee
Choral	15	1940	A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map	for male chorus, kettledrums and brass	words by Stephen Spender
Choral	43	1971	The Lovers	for baritone, chorus and orchestra	based on Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Choral	16	1939–1940	Reincarnations Mary Hynes Anthony O'Daly The Coolin (The Fair Haired One)	for mixed chorus	words by Antoine Ó Raifteiri in translation by James Stephens
Choral		1953	The Monk and His Cat		choral adaptation from Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Choral	30	1954	Prayers of Kierkegaard	for soprano, chorus and orchestra	words by Søren Kierkegaard
Choral		1957–1958	Under the Willow Tree	for mixed chorus and piano	choral adaptation from the opera Vanessa
Choral		1965	Easter Chorale	for mixed chorus, brass, timpani and organ (ad libitum)	Op. 40 [sic]; words by Pack Browning
Choral		1966	2 Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra" On the Death of Anthony On the Death of Cleopatra	1. for female chorus and piano 2. for mixed chorus and piano	choral extracts from the opera Anthony and Cleopatra
Choral	42	1968	2 Pieces Twelfth Night To Be Sung on the Water	for mixed chorus a cappella	1. words by Laurie Lee 2. words by Louise Bogan
Vocal		1917	Sometime	for voice and piano	words by Eugene Field
Vocal		1918	In the Firelight	for voice and piano
Vocal		1919	Isabel	for voice and piano	words by John Greenleaf Whittier
Vocal		1920?	October-Weather	for voice and piano
Vocal		1924	My Fairlyland	for voice and piano	words by Robert Thomas Kerlin
Vocal		1924	2 Poems of the Wind Little Children of the Wind Longing	for voice and piano	words by Fiona Macleod
Vocal		1925	A Slumber Song of the Madonna	for voice and piano	words by Alfred Noyes
Vocal		1925	Fantasy in Purple	for voice and piano	words by Langston Hughes
Vocal		1925	2 Songs of Youth Invocation to Youth I Never Thought That Youth Would Go	for voice and piano	1. words by Laurence Binyon 2. words by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Vocal		1926	Ask Me To Rest	for voice and piano	words by Edward Hicks Streeter Terry
Vocal		1926	Man	for voice and piano	words by Humbert Wolfe
Vocal		1926	Watchers	for voice and piano	words by Dean Cornwell (or Edgar Daniel Kramer)
Vocal		1926?	Music, When Soft Voices Die	for voice and piano	words by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Vocal		1927	Mother, I Can Not Mind My Wheel	for voice and piano	words by Walter Savage Landor
Vocal		1927	Thy Love	for voice and piano	words by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Vocal		1927	There's Nae Lark	for voice and piano	words by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Vocal	2	1927 1928 1934	3 Songs The Daisies With Rue My Heart Is Laden Bessie Bobtail	for voice and piano	1. words by James Stephens 2. words by A. E. Housman 3. words by James Stephens
Vocal	3	1931	Dover Beach	for baritone and string quartet	words by Matthew Arnold
Vocal		1934	Love at the Door	for voice and piano	words by John Addington Symonds
Vocal		1934	Serenader	for voice and piano	words by George Dillon
Vocal		1935	Love's Caution	for voice and piano	words by W. H. Davies
Vocal		1935	Night Wanderers	for voice and piano	words by W. H. Davies
Vocal		1935	Of That So Sweet Imprisonment	for voice and piano	words by James Joyce
Vocal		1935	Strings in the Earth and Air	for voice and piano	words by James Joyce
Vocal		1936	Beggar's Song	for voice and piano	words by W. H. Davies
Vocal	10	1936	3 Songs Rain Has Fallen Sleep Now I Hear an Army	for voice and piano	words by James Joyce 3. also orchestrated
Vocal		1937	In the Dark Pinewood	for voice and piano	words by James Joyce
Vocal	13	1937–1940 1937 1938 1938 1940	4 Songs A Nun Takes the Veil (Heaven-Haven) The Secrets of the Old Sure on This Shining Night Nocturne	for voice and piano	1. words by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2. words by W. B. Yeats 3. words by James Agee; also orchestrated 4. words by Frederic Prokosch; also orchestrated
Vocal		1940	Song for a New House	for voice, piano, and flute with ad libitum cadenza	composed for Mary Louise Curtis; text from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, scene i.[4]
Vocal	18	1942 1943	2 Songs The Queen's Face on the Summery Coin Monks and Raisins	for voice and piano	1. words by Robert Horan 2. words by Jose Garcia Villa
Vocal	24	1947	Knoxville: Summer of 1915	for soprano and orchestra	words by James Agee
Vocal	25	1947	Nuvoletta	for voice and piano	words by James Joyce
Vocal	27	1950–1951	Mélodies passagères Puisque tout passe Un cygne Tombeau dans un parc Le clocher chante Départ	for voice and piano	words by Rainer Maria Rilke
Vocal	29	1953	Hermit Songs At Saint Patrick's Purgatory Church Bells at Night St. Ita's Vision The Heavenly Banquet The Crucifixion Sea-Snatch Promiscuity The Monk and His Cat The Praises of God The Desire for Hermitage	for voice and piano	poems translated from anonymous Irish texts of the 8th to 13th centuries
Vocal	39	1962	Andromache's Farewell	for soprano and orchestra	text from The Trojan Women by Euripides, translated by John Patrick Creagh
Vocal	41	1968–1969	Despite and Still A Last Song My Lizard (Wish for a Young Love) In the Wilderness Solitary Hotel Despite and Still	for voice and piano	1. words by Robert Graves 2. words by Theodore Roethke 3. words by Robert Graves 4. words by James Joyce 5. words by Robert Graves
Vocal	45	1972	3 Songs Now I Have Fed and Eaten Up the Rose A Green Lowland of Pianos O Boundless, Boundless Evening	for voice and piano	1. words by James Joyce, translation of a poem by Gottfried Keller 2. words by Czesław Miłosz 3. words by Christopher Middleton

References

1. Finkelstein, Sidney (1991). Music of Samuel Barber (CD booklet). New York, New York: Vanguard Classics.
2. Kennicott, Philip (1990). Samuel Barber: Medea, Third Essay, Fadogoraph of a Yestern Scene (CD booklet). Westbury, New York: Koch International Classics.
3. Heyman, Barbara B. "The Chamber Music of Samuel Barber" (PDF). Chamber Music America. Chamber Music America. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
4. Heyman, Barbara B. "The Chamber Music of Samuel Barber" (PDF). Chamber Music America. Chamber Music America. Retrieved 11 August 2019.

External links

• Samuel Barber website
• Vincent, Michelle. "Barber II, Samuel Osborne ("John Brandywine")".