Étude No. 6 | |
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Étude by Heitor Villa-Lobos | |
Key | E major |
Catalogue | W235 |
Composed | 1928 Paris : |
Dedication | Andrés Segovia |
Published | 1953 Paris : |
Publisher | Max Eschig |
Duration | 2–4 mins. |
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Premiere | |
Date | 5 March 1947 : |
Location | Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts |
Performers | Andrés Segovia, guitar |
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Étude No. 6, one of his Twelve Études for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953.
The piece is in E minor and is marked Poco allegro [1]
Étude No. 6 is a chord study opening with heavily accented chords in a pattern suggesting the Argentine tango ( Santos 1985, 24).