Samuel Barber
(1910 - 1981)
Boyhood home of this composer of orchestral and vocal works, including the "Adagio for Strings" and Knoxville; Summer of 1915." Won Pulitzer Prizes in music, 1958 & 1963. Graduate, Curtis Institute. He wrote West Chester High's Alma Mater song.
Marker is on S. Church Street, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
