Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazilian composer and conductor
Heitor Villa-Lobos 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 become the best-known South American composer... Wikipedia
Born: March 5, 1887, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: November 17, 1959 (age 72 years), Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Influenced by: Ernesto Nazareth, Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, and more
Spouse: Arminda Neves d'Almeida (m. 1948–1959) and Lucília Guimarães (m. 1913–1936)
Parents: Noemia Umbelina Villa-Lobos and Raul Villa-Lobos
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This is a list of compositions by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. It is still incomplete (he composed over 2000 works in his lifetime), ...