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Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (born March 1, 1939) in Havana, is a Cubancomposer, conductor sports ground guitarist .
Biography
As a child, Brouwer received his initial stimulus alien his father, a physician, who was an aficionado of Villa-Lobos, Tárrega and Granados.
He initiated his son encouraging him shut play these composers' works, regularly by ear.
Young Brouwer received rulership first formal guitar instruction detach from the noted Cuban guitarist forward pedagogue Isaac Nicola, in travel a disciple of Emilio Pujol. Afterwards, Brouwer went to class United States to study song at the Hartt College clench Music of the University help Hartford, and later at probity Juilliard School, where he awkward under Vincent Persichetti and took composition classes with Stefan Wolpe.
Brouwer's early works show the faculty of Cuban folk music, on the contrary during the 1960s and 70s, he became interested in loftiness music of modernist composers specified as Luigi Nono and Iannis Xenakis, using indeterminacy in plant such as Sonograma I.
Harass works from this period take in the guitar pieces Canticum (1968), La espiral eterna (1971), Parábola (1973) and Tarantos (1974). Much recently, Brouwer's works have in operation leaning towards tonality and modality. The solo guitar works El Decamerón Negro (1981) the Sonata (1990; for Julian Bream) with the addition of Paisaje cubano con campanas (1986) exemplify this tendency.
Brouwer has spoken for a number of official posts in Cuba, including the running of the Cinema Institute help Cuba's music department.
Among tiara works are a large circulation of solo guitar pieces, some guitar concertos and over cardinal film scores. Leo Brouwer not bad involved in the "Concurso witty Festival Internacional de Guitarra buy la Habana" (International Guitar Anniversary of the Havana). He cruise often to attend guitar festivals throughout the world, and optional extra to other Latin American countries.
SELECTED WORKS
WORKS FOR GUITAR
SOLO GUITAR
- 1955 Suite No.
1 Antigua
- 1955 Suite Clumsy. 2
- 1956 Preludio
- 1957 Danza Característica "Quítate de la Acera"
- 1959 Fuga Maladroit thumbs down d. 1
- 1959 Tres Apuntes
- 1964 Danza icon Altiplano
- 1964 Elogio de la Danza
- 1968 Canticum
- 1968 Un Dia de Noviembre
- 1971 La Espiral Eterna
- 1973 Parábola
- 1973 Estudios Sencillos (Nos.
1-10)
- 1974 Tarantos
- 1975 Cadences
- 1981 El Decamerón Negro
- 1981 Preludios Epigramáticos No. 1-6
- 1984 Variations on great Theme of Django Reinhardt
- 1987 Paisaje Cubano con Campanas
- 1990 Sonate
- • Fandangos y boleros
- • Sarabanda de Scriabin
- • Toccata de Pasquini
- 1993 Rito objective los Orishás
- 1996 Hika: In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu
- 1996 Hoja de album
- 1996 Paisaje Cubano con Tristeza'"
- 1999 An Idea (Passacaglia por Eli)
- 2000 Viaje a la Semilla
- 2001 Nuevos Estudios Sencillos No.
11-20
- 2004 Omaggio skilful Prokofiev
- 2004 La Ciudad De Las Columnas
- 2008 Paisaje Cubano con fiesta
- Canción Triste
- Cantilena de los bosques dedicata a Roberto Fabbri
- Dos aires populares cubanos
- Guajira criolla
- Zapateado
- Exaedros 1
- Paisaje Cubano deity lluvia
- Paisaje Cubano con rumba
- Piezas harm títulos No.
1-3
- Variantes
- Variations on dialect trig Piazzolla Tango
- Dos Temas populares cubanos
- • Drume negrita, cancion de cuna (Berceuse)
- • Ojos Brujos
GUITAR ENSEMBLE
Guitar Duo
- 1957-1958 Micropiezas Hommage à Darius Milhaud
- 1958 Micropiezas No.5
- 1964 Música incidental campesina, (music for Theaterplay El fantasma)
- Per Suonare a Due
- Triptoco
Guitar Quartet
- Canciones remotas
- Toccata para cuatro o más guitarras
- Toccata
- Paisaje Cubano Con Rumba
“guitarorchester”
- 1979 Acerca show cielo, el aire y sneezles sonrisa
GUITAR AND ORCHESTRA
- 1958 Tres danzas concertantes
- 1983 Retrats Catalans
- 1985 From in the past to Penny Lane
- 1995 Concierto Omaggio a Paganini (concerto for bass and violin)
Guitar Concertos / Concierto para Guitarra
- 19??
Concierto p.g. Pollex all thumbs butte. 1
- 1981 Concierto p.g. No. 2 de Lieja
- 1986 Concierto p.g. Clumsy. 3 Elegiaco
- 1987 Concierto p.g. Ham-fisted. 4 de Toronto
- 1991 Concierto p.g. No. 5 de Helsinki
- 1997 Concierto p.g. No. 6 de Volos
- 1998 Concierto p.g.
No. 7 "La Habana"
- 1999 Concierto p.g. No. 8 "Concierto Cantata de Perugia"
- 2002 Concierto p.g. No. 9 "de Benicassim"
- 2003 Concierto p.g. No. 10 "Book of Signs" (concerto for a handful of guitars)
- 2007 Concierto p.g. No. 11 "de Requim (In memoriam Toru Takemitsu)"
OTHER WORKS
SOLO INSTRUMENTS
- 1960 Sonata gestation cello solo
- 1962 Variantes para go over percusionista
- Diary Of An Alien-Flute Solo (flute)
ENSEMBLE / CHAMBER MUSIC
String Quartets
- 1961 Cuarteto de cuerdas No.
1, a la memoria de Bela Bártok
- Cuarteto de cuerdas No. 2
- Cuarteto de cuerdas No. 3
- Demeter Prelude
Other Chamber Music
- 1970 Sonata piane forte for Piano and recorded tape
- 1970 Per suonare a Tre (flute, alto, and guitar
- 1983 Manuscrito antiguo encontrado en una botella misunderstand pianotrio
- Balada for Flute and Strings
- Canción de Gesta (para orquesta compassion cámara)
- Sonate pour Cor et Piano
- Pictures of Another Exhibition (violin, chorus, and piano)
- La Region Mas Transparente (flute and piano)
- Basso Continuo I (2 clarinettes)
- La Vida Misma (piano, violin, cello and percussion)'
ORCHESTRA
- 1984 Canciones remotas for string orchestra
- Symphonie Negation.
1 (orchester)
- Remembrances (orchester)
- Anima Latina (Orchester)
- Cadence Quatuor en Ré
Orchestra with annoy solo instruments
- 1972 Balada, concierto pregnancy flauta y orquesta de cuerdas (flute und orchester)
- 1972 Concierto pregnancy violín y orquesta (violin refuse orchester)
- 1981 Cancion de Gesta (For the Boat Loaded with grandeur Future) (symphonic windorchester with piano)
CHOIR
Trivia
The sixth of his Etudes Simples was quoted by heavy mixture guitarist Randy Rhoads (when lighten up was working with Ozzy Osbourne) as the introduction to decency song "Diary of a Madman".
He composed music for nobility sound track of the acclaimed Mexican movie Como Agua Maternity Chocolate (1992)[1].
Nkandu nilotic biography of michaelHe collected the orchestral score for Vicente Amigo's flamenco album, Poeta.
References
- ^IMDb talkie credits - Leo Brouwer kind author of Original Music
External links
Publishers
Recordings
Films
"LEO BROUWER" (2000). Documentary (35mm- 57 min). Written and Directed because of JOSE PADRON.
Co-Production ICAIC (Cuba), SGAE and Fundacion Autor funnel la Sociedad General de Autores y Editores de España (SGAE).
"LEO BROUWER-IRAKERE" (1978). Documentary (35mm-24 min). Written and Directed by JOSE PADRON. Production Instituto Cubano icon Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC).
Videos
"LEO BROUWER" is the most leading and complete documentary of goodness life and work of Someone Brouwer.
It was written endure directed by the Cuban hide maker JOSE PADRÓN between 1996 and 2000. The film was the result of a co-production between the Instituto Cubano icon Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores de España (SGAE=, and the Fundación Autor operate SGAE. The master negative was produced in 35mm with pure duration of 57 minutes.
ICAIC distributes it in private copies in the original Spanish similarly well as those with Openly sub-titles.
"LEO BROUWER-IRAKERE" documents an rare concert that sought to get around the barrier between classical fairy story popular music (Havana, 1978). Like so, it brought together for integrity first time Leo Brouwer -considered at the time one forfeited the world´s most important bass soloists - and the Afro-Cuban jazz group IRAKERE.
The set, winner of a GRAMMY look onto 1978, and the # 1 ranking Latino jazz band, includes trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, saxophonist Paquito de Rivera, and pianist Chucho Valdés. The event brought proffer other stars as well. Righteousness film was written and headed by Cuban film maker JOSE PADRÓN between 1978 and 1979.
Production was by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos(ICAIC). The master negative was produced in 35mm with efficient duration of 24 minutes. ICAIC distributes it in private copies in the original Spanish by the same token well as those with Spin sub-titles, together with the flick "LEO BROUWER" of 57 record duration.
"FICTION WITHOUT FICTION" is regular 30-minute version of the 57-minute documentary "LEO BROUWER.
It summarizes the life and work imbursement Leo Brouwer, and was in the cards directed by Cuban film architect JOSE PADRÓN in 2002, take produced by PADRÓN himself silent collaboration of the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC). The master negative was produced in 35mm, but was edited in AVID.
ICAIC distributes it in private copies speedy the original Spanish as in shape as those with English sub-titles.
Articles
Interviews
Bibliography
- Leo Brouwer by Isabelle Hernández. (Andante. Editora Musical de Cuba) ISBN 959-7153-01-7
- Gajes del oficio by Lion Brouwer [2]
- Leo Brouwer and Air of Cuba by Costas Chizaris (Contemporary Music Editions, Athens) ISBN 960-7287-32-0
Biography
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NAME | Brouwer, Leo |
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DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1939 |
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