Barber was awarded the Beams Prize of Columbia University for his Violin Sonata in 1928, and yet again in 1933, for the overture for The School for Scandal. In 1935, he won the Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship and the Rome Prize. These awards enabled Barber to travel throughout Europe in 1935 and 1936 and to study at the American Academy in Rome, where he composed his Symphony No. 1 (1935–36) and the String Quartet (1936). In 1938, Arturo Toscanini conducted the...