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One credible estimate states that Almeida contributed to no less than 800 film soundtracks (among them The Old Man and the Sea, How the West Was Won, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s), as well as countless TV scores. He also authored a series of guitar instruction books that are still in use worldwide. A master improviser and a skilled arranger as well as a brilliant interpreter of classical repertoire, he left for posterity superb recordings of works by J.S. Bach, Fryderyk Chopin, Claude Debussy, and Joaqun Rodrigo as well as a host of Brazilian composers including Heitor Villa-Lobos, Radams Gnattali, and Alfredo Vianna. Almeida’s own chamber compositions include a concerto for guitar and orchestra.
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