Prelude_No._5_(Villa-Lobos)
Prelude No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)
Guitar piece by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Prelude No. 5 is a guitar piece written by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
The piece is subtitled "Homenagem à vida social" (Homage to Social Life), is in the key of D major, marked "Poco animato", and is the second of the Five Preludes, written in 1940. The others are in E minor, E major, A minor, and E minor. It was first performed, together with its four companions, by Abel Carlevaro in Montevideo on 11 December 1943.[1]
Written in 6
4 meter, this prelude evokes the waltzes danced by the upper classes of Rio de Janeiro in a bygone age.[2]