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Besides the world premiere in 1938, Toscanini also performed the music on January 24, 1942, in a special War Bonds performance that was preserved on transcription discs; Toscanini never made a commercial recording of the music.
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Friedwald, Russell Edward. 1957. "A Formal and Stylistic Analysis of the Published Music of Samuel Barber". Ph. D. diss. Ames: Iowa State University.
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saw its first performance. It lasts around 8 minutes and is dedicated "To C.E." The essay is now known as the
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Barber visited Toscanini several times in 1933 at his villa on Isola di San Giovanni in
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on November 5, 1938 in New York in a radio broadcast concert in which the composer's
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resembles but is not equivalent to a first movement of a symphony.
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Pettis, Ashley. November 13, 1938. "Important American Music".
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Index

Samuel Barber
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Arturo Toscanini
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Adagio for Strings
Second Essay for Orchestra
Third Essay
Lago Maggiore
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Eugene Ormandy
Philadelphia Orchestra
RCA Victor
Neeme Järvi
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
Heyman 1992
Heyman 1992
ISBN
9780195090581
The New York Times
First Essay for Orchestra, Op. 12
Los Angeles Philharmonic
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Samuel Barber
List of compositions
Knoxville: Summer of 1915

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