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Heitor Villa-Lobos [ a ] March 5, — November 17, was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Both are important works in the classical guitar repertory. Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro.

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In Villa-Lobos's early childhood, Brazil underwent a period of social revolution and modernisation, abolishing slavery in and overthrowing the Empire of Brazil in Villa-Lobos underwent very little of this formal training. After a few abortive harmony lessons, he learnt music by illicit observation from the top of the stairs of the regular musical evenings at his house arranged by his father.

He learned to play cello, clarinet, and classical guitar. When his father died suddenly in he earned a living for his family by playing in cinema and theatre orchestras in Rio. Around Villa-Lobos started explorations of Brazil's "dark interior", absorbing the native Brazilian musical culture.

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Serious doubt has been cast on some of Villa-Lobos's tales of the decade or so he spent on these expeditions, and about his capture and near escape from cannibals, with some believing them to be fabrications or wildly embellished romanticism. His earliest compositions were the result of improvisations on the classical guitar from this period.

Villa-Lobos played with many local Brazilian street-music bands; he was also influenced by the cinema and Ernesto Nazareth's improvised tangos and polkas. Up until his marriage, he had not learned to play the piano, so his wife taught him the rudiments of the instrument. The music presented at these concerts shows his coming to terms with the conflicting elements in his experience, and overcoming a crisis of identity, as to whether European or Brazilian music would dominate his style.

These works drew from native Brazilian legends and the use of "primitive" folk material. European influences did still inspire Villa-Lobos. In , he also met the pianist Arthur Rubinstein , who became a lifelong friend and champion; this meeting prompted Villa-Lobos to write more piano music.