Editing Samuel Barber (section)

===Violin===
In 1939 Philadelphia industrialist [[Samuel Simeon Fels]] commissioned Barber to write a [[violin concerto]] for Fels's ward, Iso Briselli, a 1934 graduate from the [[Curtis Institute of Music]] (as Barber was).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.curtis.edu/alumni/about-alumni/full-alumni-listing/ |title=Curtis Institute of Music : Full Alumni Listing |access-date=March 29, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210105243/https://www.curtis.edu/alumni/about-alumni/full-alumni-listing/ |archive-date=December 10, 2012 }}</ref> The Barber biographies written by Nathan Broder (1954) and Barbara B. Heyman (1992) discuss the genesis of the concerto during the period of the violin concerto's commission and subsequent year leading up to the first performance. Heyman interviewed Briselli and others familiar with the history for her book. In late 2010, previously unpublished letters written by Fels, Barber, and Albert Meiff (Briselli's violin coach in that period), from the Samuel Simeon Fels Papers archived at the [[Historical Society of Pennsylvania]], became available to the public.{{sfn|Mostovoy|2010}}