Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Mid Level Classical Brazilian classical Early modern classical Latin classical Neoclassical

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Sobre Heitor Villa-Lobos

The music of Heitor Villa-Lobos is known for its characteristic nationalism, driving rhythms, and original instrumentation. He was trained as an autodidact opposed to academic instruction, his music grew in a completely independent and individual fashion. Villa-Lobos began studying music at an early age, when his father, a worker at the National Library and an amateur musician, taught him to play cello, viola, and guitar. These early influences later became evident in the orchestration of some of his more prominent works. Although he intended to enter school to study medicine, Villa-Lobos...