Villa Lobos - 'Etude No 1' - Classical Guitar

&No 1&- By HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS - Classical Guitar Composition By The Brazilian Master. He lived between (1887-1959) & is the most celebrated of all Brazilian classical composers. He boasts more than 2000 compositions & his classical guitar work is highly regarded after being studied & recorded by any other 20th-century guitar pieces. Villa-Lobos was a conductor and instrumentalist as well as a composer who played the Cello, Guitar, Clarinet and Piano. His first important set of guitar pieces is the Suite Populaire Bresilienne. In 1923 he moved to Paris where he was accepted and recognized in the innermost French music circle. He became a professor of composition at the International Conservatory of Music and also met the famous and influential Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia, who encouraged him to write more for the guitar. The composer came up with 12 studies (Douze Etudes) which Segovia compared them to the studies of Chopin and Scarlatti. The Etudes of Villa-Lobos are a highly important set of pieces in the classical guitar repertoire. #jammtraxx