1917
Life
- Villa-Lobos meets Paul Claudel and Darius Milhaud
- Sergei Diaghilev tours Brazil with his Ballets Russes.
Works
- Sextuor Mystique (published by Max Eschig in 1962)
- Amazonas, ballet (Max Eschig)
- Song of the Black Swan (Napoleao)
- String Quartet #4 (Associated)
- Symphony #2 (Ricordi)
- Floral Suite for piano (Napoleao)
- Uirapuru, for orchestra (Associated)
- Iára
- A Cascavel
World
- Birth of Lou Harrison, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzie Gillespie
- Death of Scott Joplin
- Donga and Mauro de Almeida write "Pelo telefone", the first Carnival samba
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