Villa Lobos Biography briefly

His father was a passionate music lover and also a good amateur cellist. He taught the young eitor not only a musical literacy, but also to the game on many musical instruments, which later was very useful to the composer. Early lost his father and did not meet his mother’s support, Eitor left his parental house at sixteen. Thus began the “musical universities” of the Vila Lobos, which gave him more likely more than the complete conservative course of the composition.

With a constant guitar behind him, one or with a group of stray musicians, he wandered around the country, played in restaurants and cinema. It was then that he was related to the people of Brazil, approached the very origins of his musical creativity. That is why among the great many works of the composer according to some reports, there are more than two thousand of them! Vila Lobos created in almost all musical genres of the opera, operetta, symphony and symphonic poems, ballets and various chamber works, songs, romances, choirs, instrumental concerts, music for children.

His work passed through a number of hobbies and influences, but in the best opuses the composer remained a true Brazilian artist. This was expressed primarily in the truly national character of the music of the Vila Lobos. In this sense, among his many wonderful works, two series of plays should be distinguished under the general name “Shoro” and “Brazilian bahians”, in which inexhaustible melodic fantasy is perfectly combined with a colorful and thin 4 instrumentation.

Vila Lobos widely and freely used not only the most farm of popular musion, but also the composition of the performers in these plays. All "Shoro" together is similar to the musical monument to the Brazilian national spirit and character, taps and images of folk songs and dances, the sound of folk instruments are recreated here. In the name of the sluts, a tribute to the greatest German master is guessed, from Bach - a generous polyphonic texture.

The widespread tireless popularization of Brazilian music has become the vital of the Vila Lobos throughout his artistic path. These were copyright concerts and concerts in which he conducted the works of his compatriots. An important event in the history of the country's culture was an organization in the year of the Brazilian Music Academy, the first president of which was Vila Lobos.

The composer’s musical and public activity was very active. At different times, he was a conductor and folklorist, headed the musical organizations of Brazil and was its delegate in the UNESCO National Committee. Vila Lobos was a scientist, for the choir anthology created by him for children's music schools “Practical Guide” turned out to be a kind of encyclopedia of Brazilian folk music and poetry.

The commander of the Order of the Honorary Legion of France, an honorary member of the Santa Chechilia Academy in Rome - these and many other high titles and awards marked the merits of the Vil Lobos. He used the deep location of the world -famous musicians. According to L. Sigokovsky, “Etor Vila Lobos was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, because he managed to reflect in his music the most diverse aspects of the life of his native Brazil.

In addition, his music is understandable to the peoples of all countries, since it is publicly available. ” According to the definition of Pablo of Kazals, "the Vila Lobos remains one of the great figures of modern music and the greatest pride of the country that gave rise to him." Lobos passed away in the year.