Biographies - Heitor Villa Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos (Rio de Janeiro 05/03/1887 - 17/11/1959 Rio de Janeiro) son of a humble public servant, lawyer and music lover who played the cello, very new starts in the study of the instrument by his father, which, given the small size of the child, for this purpose uses a purple down. Raul Villa-Lobos died prematurely in 1899, the mother of the future author of Amazons thought to make it a career as a doctor, but the passion was for the strongest and, armed with his guitar, gave him broad, touching wheels popular and instrumental ensembles, the cries and calls, starting in 1900 to compose for the instrument a series of little pieces of taste also popular. Soon earned his living as a cellist, playing in cinemas, theaters and cafes.