| Étude No. 1 | |
| Type: | Étude |
| Composer: | Heitor Villa-Lobos |
| Key: | E minor |
| Catalogue: | W235 |
| Form: | through-composed |
| Dedication: | Andrés Segovia |
| Duration: | 2 mins. |
| Movements: | 1 |
| Publisher: | Max Eschig |
| Premiere Location: | Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts |
| Premiere Performers: | Andrés Segovia, guitar |
| First Recording: | Andrés Segovia (issued on Villa-Lobos: Two Studies [Nos. 1 and 8]. 1 disc, 78rpm, 12 inch, monaural. Columbia L.X. 1229 (matrix nos. CAX 10567; CAX 10570). England: Columbia Records. |
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Étude No. 1, part of his 12 Studies for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953.
The first public performance of this étude (together with those of Études 7 and 8) was given by Andrés Segovia on 5 March 1947 at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
The piece is in E minor and is marked Allegro non troppo. A strong presence of J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier suggests a miniature Bachianas Brasileiras.
Étude No. 1 is an arpeggio study that is predominantly focused on a cross-string right-hand technique with the exception of one scalar passage from bar (music)measure 23 to 24 and a series of cadential harmonics in measures 31 to 32.
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