Heitor Villa-Lobos c. 1922 Heitor Villa-Lobos ( Portuguese:; March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a, conductor, cellist, pianist, and guitarist described as 'the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music'. Villa-Lobos has become the best-known South American composer of all time. A prolific composer, he wrote numerous,, and vocal works, totaling over 2000 works by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian and by stylistic elements from the European tradition, as exemplified by his (Brazilian Bachian-pieces). His Etudes for guitar (1929) were dedicated to, while his 5 Preludes (1940) were dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d’Almeida, a.k.a. The Full Suite of Villa-Lobos' remarkable Suite Populaire Bresilienne for Guitar, in an authentic and scholarly edition by Frederic Zigante. Suite Populaire Bresilienne sheet music - Guitar sheet music by Heitor Villa-Lobos: Editions Max Eschig. Shop the World's Largest Sheet Music Selection today at Sheet Music Plus. ![]() Both are important works in the guitar repertory. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Youth and exploration [ ] Villa-Lobos was born in. Mt6572__ag__boost__boost__4.4.2. His father, Raul, was a civil servant, an educated man of Spanish extraction, a, and an amateur and musician. In Villa-Lobos's early childhood, Brazil underwent a period of social revolution and modernisation, abolishing in 1888 and overthrowing the in 1889. The changes in Brazil were reflected in its musical life: previously European music had been the dominant influence, and the courses at the were grounded in traditional. Villa-Lobos underwent very little of this formal training. After a few abortive harmony lessons, he learnt music by illicit observation from the top of the stairs of the regular musical evenings at his house arranged by his father. ![]() He learned to play,. When his father died suddenly in 1899 he earned a living for his family by playing in cinema and theatre orchestras in Rio. Around 1905 Villa-Lobos started explorations of Brazil's 'dark interior', absorbing the native Brazilian musical culture. Serious doubt has been cast on some of Villa-Lobos's tales of the decade or so he spent on these expeditions, and about his capture and near escape from cannibals, with some believing them to be fabrications or wildly embellished romanticism. After this period, he gave up any idea of conventional training and instead absorbed the musical influences of Brazil's indigenous cultures, themselves based on and African, as well as elements. His earliest compositions were the result of on the guitar from this period. Villa-Lobos played with many local Brazilian street-music bands; he was also influenced by the cinema and improvised. For a time Villa-Lobos became a cellist in a Rio opera company, and his early compositions include attempts at Grand Opera. Encouraged by, a pianist and music publisher, he decided to compose seriously. Heitor Villa-Lobos at the end of a concert in, 1952 Vargas fell from power in 1945.
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