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 | 1930 |
| Premiered | 1932, September 12th in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| First published | 1948 |
| Catalogue | W 246 |
| Approx. duration | 18 minutes |
| Instruments | 8x Cello |
| Autotranslations beta |
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras n°1, W 246 Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras n. 1, W 246 Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras Nr. 1, W 246 |
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