Heitor Villa-lobos and ‘Choros’ no. 3

In the 1920s, composer Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote a series of fourteen nationalistic pieces called Choros, which was the direct result of his search for an “authentic” Brazilian musical language. In Choros, Villa-Lobos combined elements from the Brazilian urban popular genre choro (from which he drew...

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