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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 Austin,
This text, intended as a preamble to a future critical biography of the composer, presents analyses of some of his major works and remains to date a landmark in Villa-Lobos studies. Consistent with the book’s purpose, as stated in its title, and while exploring the composer’s “nationalism,
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
Born in Rio de 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 Koussevitzky, 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 rich oeuvre that encompassed all genres: opera, 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 become the subject of systematic academic research and recording.
Villa-Lobos’ classical training was initiated at home by his father Raul Villa-Lobos, a writer and gifted amateur musician who introduced him to the cello and cultivated an atmosphere that encouraged in young Heitor a fascination
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
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