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Primary Sources for Latin American Composers at the Library of Congress

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

The date range of primary sources in the Music Division for Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos is 1927-1959 and undated.

The links in the Location/Call Number column link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog or Music Division finding aids for special collections.

Correspondence

Dates Location/Call Number
1927-1953 Irving Schwerké Collection
1932, circa 1930 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Boxes 5 and 13
1938-1948 Serge Koussevitzky Archive, Box 62
1940 February 9 Modern Music Archives, Box 2
1940 Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection, Box 19
1940-1941 Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, Box 168
1944-1959 Music Division Old Correspondence
1957-1979
[Heitor and Arminda Villa-Lobos]
Andre Kostelanetz Collection, Box 1145
1958-1959 Aaron Copland Collection, Box 265

Scores

Work Title Dates Location/Call Number
Madona: poema sinfônico 1945 December 29 ML30.3c2.V5 (Case)
(Koussevitzky Music Foundation commission)
11ª Sinfonia [Symphony no. 11] 1955 ML30.3c.V5 (Case)
(Koussevitzky Music Foundation commission)
Trio (violino, alto e celo) 1945 September 30 ML29c.V45 (Case)
(Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation commission)
Work Title Dates Location/Call Number
Bachianas brasileiras no. 5 undated Andre Kostelanetz Collection, Box 1121
Bachianas brasileiras no. 9 1945 Aaron Copland Collection, Box 145
Chôros 1920 Andre Kostelanetz Collection, Box 1121
Concerto no. 2 for violoncello 1953
[facsimile published 1963]
ML96.5.V48 (Case)
Concerto for mouth-organ
[Concerto para harmônica e orquestra]
1955-1956
[facsimile published 1967]
M1039.4.M6 V5
Fantasia concertante; orquestra de violoncelo 1959 M1145.V57 F3
Green Mansions 1959 M1527.V56 G7 1959 (Case)
Melo-dia de montanha ("Serra de Piedade" de Bello Horizonte) undated Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, Box 268
Yerma: opera in 3 actos 1955-1956
[facsimile published 1971]
M1503.V713 Y5 1971
Work Title Dates Location/Call Number
Valsa para pianoforte undated Lauro Ayestarán Collection, Box 103
Work Title Dates Location/Call Number
12° quarteto 1950 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 81
Amazonas: Bailado indigena brasileira after 1917 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 81
Homenagem a Chopin 1949 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 81
Tristorosa 1910 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 81
Valsa da dor 1964 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 81

Photographs, Negatives, & Iconography

Dates Location/Call Number
1940-1959, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers
1941 Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, Box 349
1945-1960, undated Oliver Daniel Papers, Boxes 53 and 61
1952 June 4 Serge Koussevitzky Archive, Box 152
1958 Andre Kostelanetz Collection, Box 1224
undated Laurindo Almeida Papers, Box 71
undated Aaron Copland Collection, Box 479
undated Modern Music Archives, Box 4