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Heitor Villa-Lobos main influences:
1) Pixinguinha - chorinhos (Choro is a folk Brazilian music, brother of the samba. Pixinguinha is one of the greatest composers of choros);
2) Cartola - sambas (Cartola was a singer-composer of samba);
3) The folk Brazilian sounds, including sounds from indigenous people and also the sounds of Brazilian nature. Villa-Lobos uses those sound in his music;
4) Johann Sebastian Bach, german composer;
5) Giacomo Puccini, italian composer;
6) Richard Wagner, german composer.
-Conducted by David Robertson [2009]
-Symphony Orchestra from UK.
BIOGRAPHY:
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 November 17, 1959) 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
