The illustrated Lives of the Great Composers
144 sidor17x24cm, rikt ill. med s/v foton, bibliografi, hft. Utgivarens beskrivning:
The only 20th Century Brazilian composer with an international reputation.
Heitor Villa-Lobos´s great love for his country shines through in the strong native rhythms and exotic tone colours of his many compositions.
He spent many of his early years as an itinerant musician, learning his art from street peformers and from studyingthe heady Afro-Brazilian folk music he discovered while on his many journeys deep into the interior.
Although he spent some time in Europe, Villa-Lobos´s heart was always in South America, and he devoted most of his latter years to conducting - on one occasion with a choir of 40, 000 voices - and and to revolutionising musical education in Brazil, for which his forthright theories received worlwide acclaim.