Villa-Lobos, Heitor

In 1930, Villa-Lobos was appointed director of music education in São Paulo, Brazil, and in 1932 he became superintendent of music and art education in Rio de Janeiro. He established a conservatory in Rio de Janeiro that became the centre for instrumental teaching in Brazil, but his chief interest remained his mission to bring Brazilian folk music into the schools. In 1944, he visited the United States, conducting his own music in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, and in...