Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 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 become the ...
's Étude No. 1, part of his 12 Studies for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953.
History
The first public performance of this étude (together with those of
Études 7 and
8) was given by
Andrés Segovia on 5 March 1947 at
Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...
in
Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Structure
The piece is in
E minor and is marked ''
Allegro non troppo''. A strong presence of J. S. Bach's ''
Well-Tempered Clavier
''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time, ''clavier'', meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of in ...
'' suggests a miniature ''
Bachianas Brasileiras
The ''Bachianas Brasileiras'' () (an approximate English translation might be ''Bach-inspired Brazilian pieces'') are a series of nine Suite (music), suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instrum ...
''.
Analysis
Étude No. 1 is an
arpeggio
A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes. A broken chord may repeat some of the notes from the chord and span one or more octaves.
An arpeggio () is a type of broken chord, in which the notes that compose a chord are played ...
study that is predominantly focused on a cross-string right-hand technique with the exception of one scalar passage from
bar (music)measure 23 to 24 and a series of cadential harmonics in measures 31 to 32.
References
Sources
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Further reading
* Wright, Simon. 1992. ''Villa-Lobos''. Oxford Studies of Composers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (cloth); (pbk).
External links
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Compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos
1947 compositions
Guitar études
Compositions in E minor