Villa-Lobos wrote many compositions in feverish haste and preferred writing new pieces to revising and correcting already completed ones. Heitor Villa-Lobos’ attempt to adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music. Brasileriras represent Brazilian folk and popular music, Bachianas is the style of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Bachianas Brasileiras constitute a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 19.
His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition. Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer. Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as “the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music”. Bachiana Brasileiras No 5 – Aria (Cantilena) by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)