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Heitor Villa-Lobos
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Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) was a Brazilian composer, choreographer, conductor, and musicologist. Born and deceased in Rio de Janeiro, he worked in the fields of music, classical music, and guitar from 1915 to 1958. His compositions include operas and symphonies, with *Bachianas Brasileiras* listed as a notable work. Heitor Villa-Lobos received the award of Commander of the Legion of Honour.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 111
Top works
- Пьесы для фортепиано
- Uma metáfora
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6
- Assobio a játo. (The Jet Whistle) ... For flute and violoncello. [Score.]
- לילות קיץ
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Heitor Villa-Lobos (Rio de Janeiro, March 5, 1887 – Rio de Janeiro, November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, pianist and guitarist, described as "the most significant creative figure in 20th century in Brazilian classical music", and becoming the best-known South American composer of all time.
Known for
- Memórias do Grupo Opinião — Self (archive footage)2019
- Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova — Self (archive footage)2005
- Villa-Lobos - O Índio de Casaca — Self (archive footage)1987
- Retrato de Villa-Lobos — Ele mesmo (arquivo)1964
- Dois artistas nacionais - Portinari e Villa Lobos — Self1943
- South of the Border with Disney — Self1942
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1887
- Active to
- 1959
Discography
- Elsie Houston Sings Brazilian Songs / Bachianas Brasileiras no. 1 and Nonetto1954
- Douze études pour guitare1969
- Villa-Lobos Conducts The Violoncello Society1969
- Julian Bream Plays Villa-Lobos1971
- Soni Ventorum Plays Villa-Lobos1972
- Julian Bream plays Villa Lobos1982
- Chôros nos. 8 & 91985
- Compositions for Winds1985
- Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker Vol. 11985
- Guitar Concertos1985
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 172,258
- Total plays
- 1,804,487
Tags
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 — November 17, 1959) was a pioneering Brazilian modernist composer. He penned twelve symphonies, four operas, five ballets, and one of the most important string quartet cycles of the twentieth century. His music is noted for its exotic sound palette and formal inventiveness, influenced both by Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition. Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Heitor+Vill
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD
· 2005 · cited 15,866x
- <i>Planck</i>
2018 results
· 2020 · cited 13,378x
- <i>Planck</i>2015 results
· 2016 · cited 9,874x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,264x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,796x
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Key facts
- Born
- Heitor Villa-Lobos , ( 1887-03-05 ) March 5, 1887, Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil
- Died
- November 17, 1959 (1959-11-17) (aged 72), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Occupation
- Composer
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Heitor Villa-Lobos, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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 globally become one of the most recognizable South American composers in music history. A prolific composer, he wrote many 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), dedicated to Andrés Segovia, and his 5 Preludes (1940), dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d'Almeida, a.k.a. "Mindinha", are important works in the classical guitar repertory.
Biography
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