Brief biography of Lobos

At the age of six, he began to learn to play the cells under the leadership of his father, a passionate music lover and a good amateur cellist. At the age of 11, he already owned a clarinet, guitar and other tools. The father died when Aitor was 12 years old, and the boy had to quickly grow up. He joined the group of city musicians who played on the streets, at weddings, christening, birthdays.

At the same time, he still managed to study and successfully graduated from the school at the monastery of San Bentu. Later, Villa-Lobos entered the National Musical Institute, to the class of harmony, but he did not like a strict discipline that reigned there. Therefore, he continued his performances in the street orchestra, and earned, playing in cinemas or restaurants.

In the year, he took lessons from the composer of Brag, who introduced him to the music of Wagner, Puccini, Massna. In years he traveled around the country, studied the folk life of Brazil, and the musical folklore recorded from above folk melodies. Subsequently, the impressions of Brazilian music, in which folk, popular and Indian elements merged in his works. For the first time his works were published in the year.

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His musical language was already distinguished by unusual courage and novelty. The audience brought up on Italian operas, and criticism, holy “rules”, met the composer without much sympathy. But the Vila Lobos did not give up. The important influence on his work was had meetings with Darius Miyo, who came to Rio in the year and introduced the Vila Lobos with the music of Debussy, Sati, and the pianist Arthur Rubinstein in the year.

With the latter, they became friends. In the city, he went to Paris, already a mature composer to achieve recognition. There he meets many outstanding musicians, including M. Rael, M. de Faly, J. Enescu, S. The performance of the works of Vila-Lobos in concerts attracted the attention of the Parisian musical world to him. He was appointed professor of the composition of the Paris Conservatory and a member of its academic council.

Having left his homeland annually, he conducted concerts from his works and works of European composers. In the year, Vila Lobos returns to Brazil and immediately actively includes the country's musical life. He visited concerts in sixty -six cities of almost all of its provinces. In the year, he became the head of musical education in Brazil, organized music schools and choral groups in different cities and became known throughout the country.

From a year, he repeatedly came to the United States, where he conducted the prime ministers of a number of his works, and in the year took part in the production of his opera Malazarte. Vila-Lobos died in Rio de Janeiro on November 17 Vila Lobos is the author of special textbooks "Practical Guide", "Choral Singing", "Solfezhio", etc. He developed a system of musical education of children.

Vila-Lobos cultivated two national musical genres: a serge type of traditional song and Shoro Synthesis of Brazilian, Indian and popular musical elements. Wrote 9 operas, 15 ballets, 20 symphonies, 18 symphonic poems, 9 concerts, 17 string quartets; 14 "Shoro", many choirs, songs, music for children, processing of folklore samples, etc. The deep veneration of Bach's work caused the famous Bachianas Brasileiras Bachelor Bachianas - nine Soat for various instrumental compositions and votes.