Villa-Lobos's final major work was the music for the film "Green Mansions" (though in the end, most of his score was replaced with music by Bronislaw Kaper) and its arrangement as "Floresta do Amazonas" for orchestra, as well as some short songs issued separately. In 1957, he wrote a Seventeenth String Quartet, whose austerity of technique and emotional intensity "provide a eulogy to his craft". His "Bendita Sabedoria", a sequence of "a cappella" chorales written in 1958, is a similarly simple setting of Latin biblical texts. These works lack the pictorialism of his more public music.