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Biography

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was born on March 5, 1887 and died on November 17, 1959. In addition to being a composer, he was also a guitarist, cellist, and conductor. Villa-Lobos learned some music basics from his father, who was an amateur musician. Apart from this, he had very little formal music education in his youth.

Instead, he was heavily influenced by indigenous cultures of Brazil. At the age of twelve, he even earned a living playing music at local theater orchestras after his father’s sudden passing. However, Villa-Lobos was later influenced by European music. This fusion of musical styles is evident in most of his compositions for guitar.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music describes Villa-Lobos as “the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music”.

Indeed, Villa-Lobos’ compositions remain as some of the most popular and well-known in all of South America. Many composers face significant challenges both professionally and financially during the course of their lives.

However, this is not the case for Villa-Lobos! He was in high-demand as a performer, composer, and conductor throughout his life.

His neoclassical and nationalistic music and legacy continued to inspire people worldwide after his death in 1959. In fact, Villa-Lobos was so highly esteemed that he was even featured on the Brazillian 500 Cruzados banknote in 1986.

Villa-Lobos’ compositions have a unique blend of Brazillian and European music influences. However, he is also known for ‘liberating’ Brazillian music from the traditional confines of European music models in the 1920s.

For instance, one of his most famous quotes while touring Europe is: “I don’t use folklore, I am the folklore” (Eu sou o folclore).

Want to learn more about the life and legacy of Villa-Lobos? Check out this biography by David Appleby.

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Brazilian composer (1887–1959)

Heitor Villa-Lobos (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". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known South American composer of all time. A prolific composer, he wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2,000 works by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas Brasileiras (Brazilian Bach-pieces) and his Chôros. His Etudes for classical guitar (1929) were dedicated to Andrés Segovia, while his 5 Preludes (1940) were dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d'Almeida, a.k.a. "Mindinha". Both are important works in the classical guitar repertory.

Biography

Youth and exploration

Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro. His father, Raúl, was a civil servant, an educated man of Spanish extraction, a librarian, and an amateur astronomer and musician. In Villa-Lobos's early childhood, Brazil underwent a period of social revolution and modernisation, abolishing slavery in 1888 and overthrowing the Empire of Brazil 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 Conservatório de Música were grounded in traditional counterpoint and harmony. 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 reg

Heitor Villa-Lobos, (born March 5, 1887, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—died November 17, 1959, 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 “delinquent” friends and wanted him to become a doctor. Instead, he became a musical vagabond, playing cello and guitar to support himself while traveling throughout the states of Espírito Santo, Bahia, and Pernambuco, absorbing Brazilian folk music and composing his own pieces.

During this period Villa-Lobos enrolled briefly at the Instituto Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro, but he was to continue his travels for three years. He returned to the city with a large group of manuscripts and an intimate knowledge of the Afro-Brazilian music of the country’s northern and northeastern regions. He began a serious study of the works of Bach, Richard Wagner, and Giacomo Puccini, whose influence can be noted in his compositions. In 1915 a concert in Rio de Janeiro featured his compositions, and his career was given a vital boost that same year when the firm of Artur Napoleão began publishing his music.

Although many critics initially attacked the dissonance and modernity of his work, he pe