Desenho de heitor villa lobos biography
Parabéns, Heitor Villa-Lobos!!
The Biography of
Heitor Villa-Lobos
A love of Brazilian culture
This Brazilian maestro of the guitar was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 5, His father, Raul Villa-Lobos, was a librarian by profession and an avid amateur astronomer and musician.Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in.
The young Heitor had little formal childhood musical training other than a few abortive harmony lessons. His father held regular musical evenings at home and from the top of the stairs Heitor would illicitly observe and learn from the proceedings.
Villa-Lobos was twelve years old when his father suddenly died whereupon at this young age he turned professional musician earning his money as a cafe musician, and as a cellist in cinema and theater orchestras. In Villa-Lobos began the first of his ethno-musicalogical adventures into the wild north-eastern states of Brazil.
Such trips continued in the future and there is much mystery surrounding their details, partly because his accounts are regarded by some as spurious. Included in th