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Heitor Villa-Lobos [a] (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". [1] Villa-Lobos has become the best-known South American composer of all time. [2]
Apr 12, 2024 · Heitor Villa-Lobos (born March 5, 1887, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—died November 17, 1959, Rio de Janeiro) was a 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.
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Heitor Villa-Lobos (Rio de Janeiro, 5 de março de 1887 — Rio de Janeiro, 17 de novembro de 1959) foi um compositor, maestro, violoncelista, pianista e violonista brasileiro, [1] descrito como "a figura criativa mais significativa do Século XX na música clássica brasileira", [2] e se tornando o compositor sul-americano mais conhecido de ...
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Jun 11, 2018 · The Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was the most prolific and original of those Brazilians who, during the 20th century, worked toward the development of a national idiom in serious music that incorporated African and Native American motifs.
Apr 24, 2023 · Born in Rio de Janeiro, Heitor Villa-Lobos (b. 1887–d. 1959) is unquestionably the dominant figure in Brazilian 20th-century music, and one of the most celebrated composers of his generation. Championed during his lifetime by noted performers such as Leopold Stokowski, Arthur Rubinstein, and Andrés Segovia, Villa-Lobos was best known for ...
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 - November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, possibly the best-known classical composer born in South America. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works.
Heitor Villa-Lobos, (born March 5, 1887, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.—died Nov. 17, 1959, Rio de Janeiro), Brazilian composer. He was exposed to folk music as a child, and his later extensive ethnomusicological studies (1905–12) had great influence on his own works. Self-taught as a composer, he met Darius Milhaud in 1917, and Artur Rubinstein ...
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Albums
Villa-Lobos Performs The Little Train of the Caipira; Bachianas Brasileiras Nos. 4 & 5; Momoprecoce and others
1994
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 9
1998
Villa-Lobos plays Villa-Lobos
2008
Villa-Lobos: L'oeuvre pour Guitare
2009
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11; Villa-Lobos: Choros No. 6
2012
Regente Orquestra Rias de Berlin
2005
