Instead, he became a musical vagabond, playing cello and guitar to support himself while traveling throughout the states of Espírito Santo, Bahia, and Pernambuco, absorbing Brazilian folk music and composing his own pieces. He left home at age 18 because his widowed mother opposed his “delinquent” friends and wanted him to become a doctor. When they returned to Rio de Janeiro, Villa-Lobos began associating and performing with the city’s popular musicians. While traveling with his family to various regions of the vast country, he also developed an interest in native Brazilian folk music. He learned to play cello (actually a modified viola) at age six and was inspired by music from Johann Sebastian Bach’s A Well-Tempered Clavier that was given to him by an aunt.

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