Villa-Lobos Dead
With the death in Rio de Janeiro recently of the Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, at the age of 72, the world of music lost one of its most celebrated figures.
After his early studies in Brazil, Villa-Lobos went to Europe where he met, among others, Stravinsky, Schonberg and Hindemith, whose work made a deep impression upon him. Among Villa-Lobos’s most famous works are two series of what he termed “Choros” (from a popular genre of Brazilian music) and the “Bachianas Brasileiras," in which he drew inspiration from the classical structures of Bach’s Preludes and Fugues and developed an individual musical form which he used to express the musical atmosphere of his native Brazil.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29112, 26 January 1960, Page 9
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