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HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS

5th March 1887 --- 17th November 1959

Heitor Villa-Lobos(born 1887,  Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil--died  1959,  Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil),  Brazilian musician and one of the
foremost Latin-American composers of the 20th century, whose music combines indigenous melodic and rhythmic elements
with Western classical music from Bach to Puccini.

A cellist in his youth, he began to investigate Brazilian folk and popular music in 1905.  Leaving home because  his widowed
mother opposed a musical career he became a musical vagabond at the age of 18. He played popular music engagements on
the cello and guitar, all the while absorbing Brazilian folk music and incorporating it into his own compositions.

On his return to Rio he enrolled at the Instituto Nacional de Música but soon was off on another journey,  this time  to North
Brazil (Bahia), where he remained for three years, travelling on musical pilgrimages in the Stevenion.

Back in Rio with a large group of manuscripts and an intimate knowledge of Afro-Brazilian music of the districts,  he studied
Bach, Wagner, Puccini, and other  composers whose influence  his music was to absorb.  A vital boost to his  career occurred
in 1915,  when  his music began  to be published by the firm  of Artur Napoleão.  Music poured out of him ceaselessly,  about
2,000  works are  credited to  him in all,  and by the  time  of his  first trip to Europe  in 1923,  he had  compiled a  long list of
compositions in every form.

In 1919 when he was 32 he met the pianist Artur Rubinstein, whose playing of his music throughout the world brought Villa-
Lobos increasing recognition.

Villa-Lobos was appointed director of  musical education at São Paulo in 1930  and in 1932 took charge of  musical education
throughout  Brazil.  He established a  conservatory for  popular singing  (1942) and founded  the Brazilian  Academy of Music
1945. Between 1944 and 1949 he travelled widely in the U.S. and Europe,  where he received many honours and was much in
demand as a conductor.

Villa-Lobos wrote  operas, ballets,  symphonies,  concerti,  symphonic suites,  and solo pieces,  in a style that  was influenced
by Bach, French composers and Wagner.  His style was also suffused with an original use of Brazilian percussion instruments
and Brazilian rhythms.  One of his most characteristic works Bachianas brasileiras (1930-44),  a set of nine pieces for various
instrumental and vocal groups which a contrapuntal technique in the manner of Bach is applied to themes of Brazilian origin.
A similar series of 14 works,  composed between 1920 and 1929,  bears the generic title  Chôros (a Brazilian country  dance).
His 12 symphonies (1920-58) are mostly associated with historic events or places. Other works include the symphonic poems
Uirapurú (1917), Amazonas (1929),  and Dawn in a Tropical Forest (1954), two cello concerti (1915, 1955),  Momoprecoce for
piano  and  orchestra,  a harp concerto,  a concerto  for harmonica  and orchestra, a concerto for  guitar and  orchestra (1952)
16 string quartets (1915-55), and Rudepoema for piano solo (1926, orchestrated 1942).

Copyright 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated on 2017
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

(1776)"Bendita Sabedoria - No.1, Adagio". Sequenced by Jose Marques

(1777)"Bendita Sabedoria - No.2, Andantino". Sequenced by Jose Marques

(1778)"Bendita Sabedoria - No.3, Quasi allegretto". Sequenced by Jose Marques

(1779)"Bendita Sabedoria - No.4, Allegro". Sequenced by Jose Marques

(1780)"Bendita Sabedoria - No.5, Andante". Sequenced by Jose Marques

(1781)"Bendita Sabedoria - No.6, Largo". Sequenced by Jose Marques

My thanks to Brian M. Ames for the music below

(1782)"Prole do Bebe No.2 Moreninha". Sequenced by Brian M. Ames

(1783)"Prole do Bebe No.3 Caboclinha". Sequenced by Brian M. Ames

(1784)"Prole do Bebe No.4 Moreninha". Sequenced by Brian M. Ames

(1785)"Prole do Bebe No.7 Polichinelo". Sequenced by Brian M. Ames

(786)"O Trenzinho do Caipira (toccata from Bachianas Brasileiras No.2)". Sequenced by Marcelo A.K Fontana

(787)"Bachianas Brasileiras No.5". Sequenced by Marcelo A.K Fontana

(788)"Cai, cai, balao, Cirandinhas No.6". Sequenced by Marcelo A.K Fontana

(789)"Zangou-se o cravo com a rosa" Cirandinhas No.1". Sequenced by Marcelo A.K Fontana

(192)"Carnaval des Criances No.2". Sequenced by Marcelo A.K Fontana

(196)"Danca do Indio Branco". Sequenced by Marcelo A.K Fontana

(4a)"Impressoes Seresteiras". Sequenced by Marcelo A.K Fontana

(345)"Suite Populare Bresilienne No.1 Mazurka-Choro". Sequenced by Sir Vocalise

(147)"Preludio No.1, E Flat for guitar,(Info by Uwe Janssen and Mark Geiser)". Sequencer unknown

(5a)"Prole de Bebe No.1, No.2, Moreninha". Sequencer unknown

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