Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos Sheet Music

  • Born: 5th March 1887
  • Died: 17th November 1959
  • Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. 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 Bachian-pieces).