Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Heitor Villa-Lobos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Heitor Villa-Lobos

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 of all time. A prolific composer, he wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2000 works by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas Brasileiras and his Chôros. His Etudes for classical guitar (1929) were dedicated to Andrés Segovia, while his 5 Preludes (1940) were dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d'Almeida, a.k.a. "Mindinha". Both are important works in the classical guitar repertory.

I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania. — © Heitor Villa-Lobos
I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.
Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.
The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.
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