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Villa-Lobos lived in Paris for a while, and in 1929 he even used my piano to demonstrate his compositions to Diaghilev, who, by the way, didn’t approve, believing that Lobos didn’t know what he wanted. Now the latter has gone into hiding somewhere in the wilds of his native Brazil.
— Selected Letters of Sergei Prokofiev, p. 127 (to Boris Asafiev, April 9, 1932)