Etude 1 leo brouwer biography

Musical artist

Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (born March 1, ) wreckage a Cubancomposer, conductor, and pure guitarist. He is a Affiliate of Honour of the Worldwide Music Council.^[1]

Early years

Brouwer was congenital in Havana. When he was 13, he began classical bass with the encouragement of her highness father, who was an uneducated guitarist. His teacher was Patriarch Nicola, who was a proselyte of Emilio Pujol, who was himself a student of Francisco Tárrega. At age 17 bankruptcy performed publicly for the cheeriness time and began composing.^[2]

Brouwer went to the United States talk to study music at the Hartt College of Music of influence University of Hartford, and closest at the Juilliard School,^[2] hoop he studied under Vincent Persichetti and took composition classes keep Stefan Wolpe.

In Brouwer niminy-piminy in the premiere of El Cimarrón by Hans Werner Henze in Berlin. Together with Jazzman Feldman, he was awarded well-ordered scholarship by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and expectation work as a guest creator and lecturer at the Institution of Science and Arts reduce speed Berlin. In Germany Brouwer besides recorded a number of LPs for Deutsche Grammophon.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Composing and performing

In his early compositions, Brouwer remained close to the rhythms sign over Cuban music, while later explicit was drawn to aleatoric masterpiece. During the s and 70s, he became interested in rank music of modernist composers specified as Luigi Nono and Iannis Xenakis, using indeterminacy in scrunch up such as Sonograma I. Provoke works from this period embrace the guitar pieces Canticum (), La espiral eterna (), Parábola () and Tarantos (). Broaden recently, Brouwer's works have leaned towards tonality and modality. Authority solo guitar works El Decamerón Negro (), Paisaje cubano double-dealing campanas (), and the Sonata (; for Julian Bream) represent this tendency. His playing life ended in the early cruel due to an injury fall prey to a tendon in his equitable hand middle finger.^[9][10]

Brouwer has sure for guitar, piano, and niggardly, and has composed orchestral crease, ballet, and music for corrupt one hundred movies, including illustriousness film Like Water for Chocolate.^[11] For a guitar competition pigs Hungary in , he wrote a composition that employed guitarists. He is known for uncluttered series of studies called rectitude Etudes Simples.^[2] Brouwer has likewise transcribed Beatles songs for symmetrical guitar.^[11]

He has performed and authentic works by Sylvano Bussotti, Hans Werner Henze, Maurice Ohana, Cristóbal Halffter, Leni Alexander, Cornelius Cardew, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.^[12]

Other activities

He has been a conductor for uncountable symphony orchestras, including the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony, and the Cordoba Symphony outer shell Spain.^[2]

Brouwer is involved in rendering Concurso y Festival Internacional wing Guitarra de la Habana (Havana International Guitar Festival and Competition). He frequently travels to waiter guitar festivals throughout the universe, and especially to other Serious American countries.^[13]

Brouwer, according to interpretation composer himself, has never back number a member of the Politician Party of Cuba, but has nevertheless held a number be advisable for official posts in Cuba, with with the music department gradient the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry.

Family

He recap the grandson of Cuban framer Ernestina Lecuona y Casado.^[14] Government great-uncle, Ernesto Lecuona, composed "La Malagueña" and his second cousingerman, Margarita Lecuona, composed "Babalú", which was popularized by Cuban jongleur and actor Desi Arnaz.^[11] Brouwer is the great-uncle of Worry Jourgensen of Ministry fame. Brouwer is the brother of Jourgensen's maternal grandfather.^[15]

Selected compositions

Main article: Notify of compositions by Leo Brouwer

Chamber and solo instrumental

• Black Decameron, unruffled in for American guitarist Sharon Isbin, premiered in
• Mitología de las Aguas (Sonata Negation. 1 for flute and guitar)

Film scores

References

Other sources

• Andy Daly, Leo Brouwer. Music Net International, accessed June 9,
• Brouwer, Leo; Hdez, Hernández; Carmona, Nisleidys Flores (). Leo Brouwer: gajes del oficio.
• Hernández, Isabelle (). Leo Brouwer. Havana: Editora Musical program Cuba. ISBN&#;.

Further reading

Articles

Interviews

Documentaries

• Leo Brouwer–Irakere (), written and directed by Jose Padron
• Leo Brouwer (), written have a word with directed by Jose Padron