Heitor Villa-Lobos
Subtitle: A Life (1887-1959)
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780810841499
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Music Of The 20th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians; Composers & Musicians - General; Biography; Brazil; Composers; Villa-Lobos, Heitor
Description: "Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) is the most famous and charismatic Brazilian composer of the twentieth century. This book, based on the composer's private papers and correspondence, describes the gradual development of his career from his first struggles to worldwide recognition of the individuality of his compositions and his influence on the generation of musicians and composers of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--BOOK JACKET.