page_title: Chôros No. 3
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Chôros No. 3 / History
caption_attribution_description: Escritor brasileiro Oswald de Andrade/Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade
context_page_description: Chôros No. 3, "Pica-pau" is a work for male choir or instrumental septet, or both together, written in 1925 by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. It forms a part of a series of fourteen numbered compositions collectively titled Chôros, ranging from solos for guitar and for piano up to works scored for soloist or chorus with orchestra or multiple orchestras. and in duration up to over an hour. Chôros No. 3 is one of the shorter members of the series, a performance lasting about three-and-a-half minutes.
context_section_description: Chôros No. 3 was composed in São Paulo in 1925, the year after Chôros Nos. 2 and 7 were written, and the score is dedicated to the painter Tarsila do Amaral and the poet Oswald de Andrade. It was premiered 30 November 1925 at the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo by Antenor Driussi (clarinet), Canelle, Pierre, Martin Palka, Nicola Micelli, Paulo Alpenien, and Frederico del Ré (trombone), conducted by the composer. The first European performance took place on 5 December 1927 in Paris, on the second of two concerts dedicated to Villa-Lobos's music, at the Salle Gaveau. The instrumentalists were Louis Cahuzac (clarinet), Hippolyte Poimboeuf (alto saxophone), Gustave Dhérin (bassoon), Edmond Entraigue, Jean-Lazare Pénable, and Mr. Marquette (horns) and Jules Dervaux (trombone), conducted by Robert Siohan (Villa-Lobos, sua obra 2009, 21). A recording by the latter ensemble, including a male choir, appears to have been made shortly after the French premiere and released as a part of a 78 rpm disc [?Disque Gramophone] GW-914 (Villa-Lobos, sua obra 1972, 265).
caption: Oswald de Andrade in 1922
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