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Etudes for Guitar

Appleby Catalogue W number: 
W235

Written in Paris in 1929, these twelve Etudes were dedicated to Andres Segovia.

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12 Etudes:

  1. Allegro non troppo - arpejos
  2. Allegro - arpejos
  3. Allegro Moderato - arpejos
  4. Un Peu Modere - acordes repetidos
  5. Andantino
  6. Poco Allegro
  7. Tres Anime
  8. Modere-Lent
  9. Tres Peu Anima
  10. Tres Anime-Vif
  11. Lent-Piu Mosso-Anime
  12. Anime-Piu Mosso Un Peu Plus Anime

 


Xuefei Yang plays Villa Lobos Etude No.7 

Thesis: Thompson, Robert P. 1990. French influence in the Douze etudes and related works of Heitor Villa-Lobos. Thesis (M.M.)--Ball State University, 1990.

In their book Choro: a social history, Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour and Thomas George Caracas Garcia discuss the influence of Chopin on the guitar etudes.

"To some degree, his guitar works also pay homage to Chopin, whose piano etudes were clearly the model for Villa-Lobos's estudos for guitar.  These are true concert etudes for the guitar and, like the Chopin works, are meant for the stage; they are not limited to the status of mere pedagogical tools.  Villa-Lobos's Estudos also represent an attempt, consciously or subconsiously, to legitimate the guitar as a concert instrument and raise it to the level of the piano..." (p. 189)

Year Composed: 

1929

Category: 
Guitar Works
Instrumentation: 

Solo guitar

Scores: 

Villa-Lobos, Heitor, and Andrés Segovia. 1953. Douze études = 12 estudos pour guitare. Paris: Éditions Max Eschig.

Look inside this title Heitor Villa-Lobos - Collected Works For Solo Guitar     Collected Works For Solo Guitar  By Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959). Guitar solo book for guitar. 95 pages. Published by Durand. (HL.50560932)
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Recordings: 

Julian Bream's disc of the Preludes, Etudes, and Guitar Concerto is at the top of my list: Guitar Concerto, Etudes, Preludes (Bream)

Timo Korhonen's Heitor Villa-Lobos: Complete Works for Guitar, Vol. 1 on the Ondine label includes superb performances of the Concerto, the Etudes, and the Introduction to Choros

I'm a big fan of Canadian guitarist Norbert Kraft. You can't go wrong with his Naxos CD of the Norbert Kraft: Complete Music for Guitar (Naxos)

And on DVD:


Performances: 

The Etudes are very commonly programmed in modern guitar recitals and concerts.  The Villa-Lobos Concerts database certainly under-reports the number of concerts with at least one Villa-Lobos Etude.