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Saudades do Brasil

The Saudades do Brasil (1920), Op. 67, are a suite of twelve dances for piano by Darius Milhaud. Composed after Milhaud's visit to Brazil in 1917-1918, each dance is based on a duple tango or samba rhythm and bears the name of a place or neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The title of the suite uses the Portuguese term saudade. In 1921 Milhaud arranged the suite for orchestra.

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• Sorocaba (dedicated to Madame Regis de Oliveira) • Botafogo (dedicated to Oswald Guerra) • Leme (dedicated to Nininha Velloso-Guerra) • Copacabana (dedicated to Godofredo Leão Velloso) • Ipanema (dedicated to Arthur Rubinstein) • Gávea (dedicated to Madame Henrique Oswald) • Corcovado (dedicated to Madame Henri Hoppenot) • Tijuca (dedicated to Ricardo Viñes) • Sumaré (dedicated to Henri Hoppenot) • Paineiras (dedicated to La Baronne Frachon) • Laranjeiras (dedicated to Audrey Parr) • Paysandu (dedicated to Paul Claudel) ==References==
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