Biography Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 5, 1887 (Rio de Janeiro, November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer and conductor.

Son of Noêmia Monteiro and Raul Villa-Lobos Villa-Lobos, was encouraged to study early because his mother wanted him doctor. However, Raul Villa-Lobos, the composer's father, an official of the National Library and amateur musician, gave him musical instruction and a viola adapted for the small Hector begin their studies cello. At 12 years old, fatherless, Villa-Lobos began playing cello in theaters, cafes and dances; alongside, interested in the intense musicality of "whiners", representatives of the best popular music of Rio de Janeiro, and in this context, we developed the guitar. Restless temperament, undertook early escapades in the interior of Brazil, the first steps of a process of absorbing the entire Brazilian musical universe. In 1913 Villa-Lobos married the pianist Lucília Guimarães, going live in Rio de Janeiro. It's great-uncle Dado Villa-Lobos.

It stands out for being the main responsible for the discovery of a peculiarly Brazilian language in music, being regarded as the greatest exponent of the music of modernism in Brazil, composing works which contains nuances of Brazilian regional cultures, with elements of indigenous and popular songs. In Brazil, his birthday is celebrated as National Day of Classical Music.

In 1922 Villa-Lobos participates week's Modern Art. The Municipal Theatre of São Paulo. The following year sailed to Europe, returning to Brazil in 1924 travels back to Europe in 1927, funded by billionaire Carlos Rio Guinles. This second trip back in 1930, when he realizes tour for sixty-six cities. Also performs this year "Crusade Orpheonic Singing" in Rio de Janeiro. His marriage to Lucília ends in the 1930s after operating from cancer in 1948, marries Arminda Neves d'Almeida Mindinha, a former student, who after his death in charge of the dissemination of a monumental work . The international impact of this work was felt especially in France and USA, as evidenced by the editorial that The New York Times gave him the next day after his death. Villa-Lobos never had children.

Villa-Lobos participated in the Week of Modern Art in 1922 performing in three days with three different spectacle.

WEEK OF MODERN ART

Heitor Villa-Lobos died on 17 November 1959 and is buried in St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1960, the government of Brazil created the Villa-Lobos Museum in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

MUSEU VILLA-LOBOS

WORKS

The first compositions of Villa-Lobos bear the imprint of European styles of the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, being mainly influenced by Wagner Puccini by top French romanticism

Frankfurt School and soon after by the Impressionists. He studied with Frederick Birth and Frederico Braga.

Dances in African features (1914), however, began to repudiate the Europeans and to discover their own language, which became established in ballets Amazon and Uirapuru (1917) templates. The composer comes to the 1920s perfectly MASTER of his artistic resources, revealed in works such as the Offspring Baby piano, or Noneto (1923). Is violently attacked by critics at the time, traveled to Europe in 1923 with the support of Maecenas Carlos Guinles and Paris, came into contact with the cutting edge of musical time. After a second stay in the French capital (1927-1930), he returned to Brazil in time to engage in new realities produced by the Revolution of 1930.

Backed by the Estado Novo, Villa-Lobos has developed extensive educational project, which had the leading role Orpheonic Singing, and that resulted in the compilation of the Practical Guide (harmonized popular topics).

Villa-Lobos had many disciples and collaborators, among composers, conductors and instrumentalists who stood by him in the various activities of the project implementation of Orpheonic Singing in Brazilian public schools, the achievement of great performances, many of them for audiences of thousands of people, and reviewing, copying and organizing your music. Two musicians who have excelled in this partnership with Villa-Lobos were the conductors and pianists José Vieira Brandão (1911-2002) and Alceo Bocchino (1918-2013).

Bust of Heitor Villa-Lobos next to the Municipal Theater of Rio De Janeiro to