Barlow, Samuel (1892–1982)

US composer. He studied at Harvard and in Paris and Rome, becoming active on behalf of liberal causes. His opera Mon Ami Pierrot (1935) is based on the life of Jean-Baptiste Lully and was the first by a US composer to be given at the Paris Opéra Comique. Other operas were Amanda (1936) and Eugénie. His symphonic concerto Babar (1935) uses slide projections but this, a piano concerto (1931), and Biedermeier Waltzes (1935) are in a conservative idiom.