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Heitor Villa-Lobos - LAST REVIEWED: 24 April
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- LAST REVIEWED: 24 April
- LAST MODIFIED: 24 April
- DOI: /obo/
Beaufils, Marcel. Villa-Lobos: Musicien et poète du Brésil. Paris: Institut des Hautes Études de l’Amérique Latine/IHEAL,
With a poetical approach, reminiscent of his contemporaries Gaston Bachelard (b. –d. ) and Vladimir Jankelevitch (b. –d. ), Marcel Beaufils (b. –d. ), a close friend of Villa-Lobos and professor of aesthetics at the Paris Conservatory, introduces French readers to aspects of Brazilian culture, which, according to him, are inextricably woven into the composer’s oeuvre. Eyewitness to the Paris premiere of Amazonas in , Beaufils notably addresses Uirapurú, the Choros, Bachianas, and Genesis, with musical examples.
Béhague, Gerard. Heitor Villa-Lobos: The Search for Brazil’s Musical Soul. Austin: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
Born in Rio dem Janeiro in , Heitor Villa-Lobos was undoubtedly the dominant figure of Brazilian music in the twentieth century. Internationally, he was one of the most celebrated composers of his generation, counted among the likes of Leopold Stokowski, Serge dirigent, Charles Munch, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eugene Ormandy, Arthur Rubinstein, Pablo Casals, and Andrés Segovia.
During his lifetime, Villa-Lobos was best known for the works he wrote in the s, such as the avant-garde Chôros and fiery tone poem Amazonas, and especially for the famous, neo-classical Bachianas Brasileiras series. However, after his death, it was his work for the guitar that gained prominence in the public eye, somewhat eclipsing the rest of an immensely rik oeuvre that encompassed all genres: musikdrama, oratorio, ballet, symphonic and concertante works, choral, chamber, and solo works. Only in more recent years has his larger-scale music returned to the concert hall and be
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos, (born March 5, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—died November 17, , Rio de Janeiro), Brazilian composer and one of the foremost Latin American composers of the 20th century, whose music combines indigenous melodic and rhythmic elements with Western classical music. Villa-Lobos’s father was a librarian and an amateur musician. Under the influence of his father’s weekly musical get-togethers, the boy became interested in music.
He learned to play cello (actually a modified viola) at age six and was inspired by music from Johann Sebastian Bach’s A Well-Tempered Clavier that was given to him by an aunt. While traveling with his family to various regions of the vast country, he also developed an interest in native Brazilian folk music.
When they returned to Rio de Janeiro, Villa-Lobos began associating and performing with the city’s popular musicians. He learned to play the guitar. He left home at age 18 because his widowed mother opposed his “delinque