The Bachianas Brasileiras (Portuguese pronunciation: [bakiˈɐ̃nɐz bɾaziˈlejɾɐs]) are a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent not so much a fusion of Brazilian folk and popular music on the one hand, and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt freely to adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music (Béhague 1994, 106; Béhague 2001). Most of the movements in each suite have two titles: one "Bachian" (Preludio, Fuga, etc.), the other Brazilian (Embolada, O canto da nossa terra, etc.).
| Date of composition | 1938 (1938 (first movement); 1945 (second movement)) |
| Premiered | 1939, March 25th |
| First published | 1947 |
| Approx. duration | 8 minutes |
| Instruments |
Voice
8x Cello |
| Autotranslations beta |
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras n°5 Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras n. 5 Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras Nr. 5 |