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Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos is credited on 5,876 releases across 967 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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5,876

Pressings credited

967

Albums

8

Decades active

124

In collections

Biography

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has globally become one of the most recognizable South American composers in music history. A prolific composer, he wrote many orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2,000 pieces by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas Brasileiras (Brazilian Bach-pieces) and his Chôros. His Etudes for classical guitar (1929), dedicated to Andrés Segovia, and his 5 Preludes (1940), dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d'Almeida, a.k.a. "Mindinha", are important works in the classical guitar repertory.

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Credited work

5,876 releases · 967 albums · active 1950–2026

  • Performance · 8,135
  • Other credits · 193
  • Production · 2

Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Walthamstow Assembly Hall · Abbey Road Studios · Sala Cecília Meireles

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