Excursions, Op. 20, is the first published solo piano piece by a composer born in what year?
Excursions (Barber) Excursions, Op. 20, is the first published solo piano piece by Samuel Barber. Barber himself explains:
Ernst Naumann Carl Ernst Naumann (15 August 183215 December 1910) was a German organist, composer, conductor, editor, arranger and musicologist. He is best known now as an arranger and editor of the music of J.S. Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was a friend of Schumann and Brahms, and conducted the first performance of the latter's "Alto Rhapsody" in 1870.