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Heitor Villa Lobos

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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" (David P. Appleby, Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography, 1988). Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer of all time. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the Eu...Read more on Last.fm
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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" (David P. Appleby, Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography, 1988). Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer of all time. 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 ("Brazilian Bach-pieces"). Sometimes mis-tagged as Hector Villa-Lobos. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Heitor+Villa+Lobos">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.