Prelude No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)
Prelude No. 5 is a guitar piece written by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
The piece is subtitled "Homenagem à vida social", is in the key of D major, 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 1942.
Written in meter, this prelude evokes the waltzes danced by the upper classes of Rio de Janeiro in a bygone age.
