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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Popular Works: Villa-Lobos
- Amazonas (4)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria (Cantilena) (14)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria and Dança (Martelo) (5)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 for chorus or string orchestra (4)
- Chôros No. 1 for guitar (6)
- Chôros No. 3 'Pica-Pau' for male chorus & wind instruments (4)
- Chôros No. 5 'Alma Brasileira' for piano (4)
- Chôros No. 10 'Rasga o Coraçao' for chorus & orchestra (5)
- Estudos (12) for guitar, W235 (5)
- Guia Prático, Album 2, W278 (3)
- Guia prático, Album 3, W279 (3)
- Modinha (3)
- New York Skyline (4)
- Nonetto, Impressão rápida de todo o Brasil (3)
- O polichinelo (No. 7 from A Próle do Bébé, Book 1) (4)
- Poema de Criança e sua Mama (Poem of a Child and his Mother) (3)
- Prelude No. 1 in E minor (3)
- Prelude No. 2 in E major (3)
- Prelude No. 3 in A minor (3)
- Prelude No. 4 in E minor 'Weep you no more sad fountains' (4)
- Prelude No. 5 (3)
- Quatuor for grande Flute, Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon (2)
- Quatuor for harp, celeste, flute, alto saxophone and female voices (4)
- Saudades das Selvas Brasilieras (3)
- Sextuor mystique for Flute, Oboe, Alto Saxophone, Guitar, Celesta and Harp (3)
- Spider Monkeys (No. 2 from Guia prático, Book 6) (3)
- String Quartet No. 2 (2)
- String Quartet No. 3 (2)
- String Quartet No. 4 (2)
- String Quartet No. 13 (2)
- String Quartet No. 14 (2)
- String Quartet No. 15 (2)
- String Quartet No. 16 (2)
- String Quartet No. 17 (2)
- Suite populaire brésilienne: 1. Mazurka-Chôrô (3)
- Suite populaire brésilienne: 2. Schottish-Chôro (3)
- The Crab (No. 3 from Guia prático, Book 6) (3)
- The Little Dove Flew Away (No. 4 from Guia prático, Book 6) (3)
- Tristorosa (3)
- Valsa da Dor (4)
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