Heitor Villa-Lobos
Born: 5th March 1887, Rio de Janeiro
Died: 17th November 1959, Rio de Janeiro
Nationality: Brazilian
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has globally become one of the most recognizable South American composers in music history. A prolific composer, he wrote many orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2,000 works by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas Brasileiras (Brazilian Bach-pieces) and his Chôros. His Etudes for classical guitar (1929), dedicated to Andrés Segovia, and his 5 Preludes (1940), dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d'Almeida, a.k.a.
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- A Lenda do Caboclo (3)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria (Cantilena) (10)
- Canção do poeta do seculo XVIII (1)
- Chôros No. 1 for guitar (1)
- Chôros No. 5 'Alma Brasileira' for piano (1)
- Estudos (12) for guitar, W235 (1)
- Eu Te Amo (1)
- Floresta do Amazonas: Canção do Amor (Song of Love) (1)
- Little Train of The Caipira (1)
- Prelude No. 3 in A minor (1)
- Prelude No. 4 in E minor 'Weep you no more sad fountains' (1)
- Prelude No. 5 (1)
- Samba Classico (1)
- Sextuor mystique for Flute, Oboe, Alto Saxophone, Guitar, Celesta and Harp (1)
- Suite populaire brésilienne (1)
