Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos for Cello and two Guitars
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos for Cello and two Guitars

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos for Cello and two Guitars

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Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos for Cello and two Guitars

  • Introduction (Embolada)
  • Preludio (Modinha)
  • Fugue (Conversa)

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, described as “the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music”. Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas Brasileiras.

The Bachianas Brasileiras constitute a series of nine suites, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent not so much a fusion between Brazilian folk and popular music on the one hand, and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt freely to adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music. Most of the movements in each suite have two titles: one “Bachian” (Preludio, Fugue, etc.), the other Brazilian (Embolada, Modinha, etc.).

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