SUITE POPULAR BRASILEIRA - VILLA LOBOS

General Information
Work Title Suite populaire brsilienne
Alternative Title
Composer Villa-Lobos, Heitor
Opus/Catalogue Number W020
Movements/Sections 4 or 5

1923-28 version
1. Mazourka-choro (1906)
2. Schottische-choro (1907)
3. Chorinho (Petit Choro)
4. Valse-choro ( Eduardo Burnay)

1948 version

1. Mazurka-choro (1908)
2. Schottisch-choro (1908)
3. Valsa-choro (1912)
4. Gavota-choro (1912)
5. Chorinho (1923)
Piece Style Early 20th century
Instrumentation Guitar solo
Extra Information The form of this work as it is known today was developed around
1948 when Villa-Lobos decided to return to a project that he had
worked on from 1923-28 to compile several pieces he had written
earlier into a suite. The original version from the 1920s consisted
of only four movements, while the 1948 one that was eventually
published in 1955 contains the familiar five. The bulk of the
differences between these versions can be summarized as follows:

(a) Despite the composer's assertion of differing

composition dates for the first two pieces, only the Mazurkachoro actually exists in what appears to be a preliminary
version: a differing treatment of very similar material from
1911 called Simples (see W040). It is doubtful whether he
actually wrote the final version of the Mazurka-choro in 1908;
it seems more likely that he wrote it in the course of his

preparations for the 1955 publication of the work.

(b) Gavota-choro was a completely new addition to the

1948/55 version.

(c) The Valsa-choro which made it to the 1955 publication

is not the same piece as the Valse-choro of the 1920s version.
The latter piece was first published in 2006, the same year it
received its premiere performance.