The Cinq Préludes by Heitor Villa-Lobos represent the Brazilian composer’s last work for solo guitar and were written in the summer of 1940. They do not constitute a single cycle, but rather a heterogeneous collection, similar in spirit to a collection of pages from an album, with each one developing, in its own individual way, a different stylistic principle. In terms of instrumental technique, Heitor Villa-Lobos places the Préludes in a kind of ideal balance point between the still nineteenth-century writing style of the Suite populaire brésilienne and the daring instrumental experimentation of the Douze Études. In the present edition, the manifold editorial issues concerning Heitor Villa-Lobos’ guitar music have been affronted by looking at of all of the sources available today: these efforts have thus enabled us to put together a more reliable text than those before it both in terms of the notes and the fingerings.
| Instrument (fx guitar, sang m.m.) | Guitar |
| Niveau | Medium |
| Sideantal | 44 |
| Media (fx Bog, CD, DVD m.m.) | Bog(softcover, hæftet) |
| Publisher/Producent | Editions Durand |
| Bidragydere | Villa-Lobos, Heitor(Composer) Zigante, Fré dé ric(Artist) |
| Sprog | Engelsk, Fransk, Italian |
| ISBN | 9781540056481 |
| ISMN | 9790044094271 |