LEO BROUWER

'Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida' (born March 1, 1939) is a Cuban composer, guitarist and conductor.
Brouwer was born in Havana, and went to the United States to study music at the University of Hartford and later at the Juilliard School, where he was taught composition by Stefan Wolpe. Brouwer's early works show the influence of Cuban folk music, but during the 1960s and 70s, he became interested in the music of modernist composers such as Luigi Nono and Iannis Xenakis, using indeterminacy in works such as ''Sonograma I''. Other works from this period include the guitar pieces ''Canticum'' (1968), ''La espiral eterna'' (1971), ''Parábola'' (1973) and ''Tarantos'' (1974). More recently, Brouwer's works have started leaning towards tonality and modality. The solo guitar works ''El Decamerón Negro'' (1981) the ''Sonata'' (1990; for Julian Bream) and ''Paisaje cubano con campanas'' (1996) exemplify this tendency.
Brouwer has held a number of official posts in Cuba, including the directorship of the Cinema Institute of Cuba's music department. Among his works are a large number of solo guitar pieces, several guitar concertos and over forty film scores. Leo Brouwer is involved in the "Concurso y Festival Internacional de Guitarra de la Habana" (International Guitar Festival of the Havana).

Contents

Guitar Concertos

Solo Guitar Works

Trivia

External links

Recordings

Videos

Articles

Interviews

Bibliography

Biography

Guitar Concertos

★ ''Concierto para Guitarra No. 1''

★ ''Concierto de Lieja No.2'' (1981)

★ ''Concierto Elegiaco No. 3'' (1986)

★ ''Concierto de Toronto No. 4'' (1987)

★ ''Concierto de Helsinki No. 5'' (1991-2)

★ ''Concierto de Volos No. 6'' (1997)

★ ''Concierto No. 7 "La Habana"'' (1998)

★ ''Concierto No. 8 "Concierto Cantata de Perugia"'' (1999)

★ ''Concierto No. 9 "de Benicassim"'' (2002)

★ ''Concierto No. 10 "Book of Signs"'' (2003-4)
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★ ' Double concerto for two guitars

Solo Guitar Works

★ ''Suite No. 2''

★ ''Piezas sin titulos Nos. 1-3''

★ ''Fuga No. 1''

★ ''Two Popular Cuban Themes: Cancion de Cuna & Ojos Brujos''

★ ''Two Popular Cuban Airs: Guajira Criolla & Zapateado''

★ ''Danza del Altiplano''

★ ''Variations on a Piazzolla Tango''

★ ''Cancion Triste''

★ ''Preludio'' (1956)

★ ''Danza Caracteristica "Quítate de la Acera"'' (1957)

★ ''Tres Apuntes'' (1959)

★ ''Elogio de la Danza'' (1964)

★ ''Un Dia de Noviembre'' (1968)

★ ''Canticum'' (1968)

★ ''La Espiral Eterna'' (1971)

★ ''Parabola'' (1973)

★ ''Tarantos'' (1974)

★ ''El Decameron Negro'' (1981)

★ ''Preludios Epigramaticos'' (1981)

★ ''Variations on a Theme of Django Reinhardt'' (1984)

★ ''Paisaje Cubano con Campanas'' (1987)

★ ''Sonata'' (1990)

★ ''Rito de los Orishas'' (1993)

★ ''Paisaje Cubano con Tristeza'' (1996)

★ ''Hika: In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu'' (1996)

★ ''An Idea (Passacaglia for Eli)'' (1999)

★ ''Viaje a la Semilla'' (2000)

★ ''Estudios Sencillos (Nos. 1-20)'' (c. 1960s?)

★ ''Nuevos Estudios Sencillos (Nos. 1-10)'' (c. 2000s?)

Trivia

The sixth of his ''Etudes Simples'' was quoted by heavy metal guitarist Randy Rhoads (when he was working with Ozzy Osbourne) as the introduction to the song "Diary of a Madman".

External links

Recordings

★ De Bach a Los Beatles (EGREM)

★ La obra guitarrística de Leo Brouwer. Vol. I. Brouwer por Brouwer. (EGREM)

★ La obra guitarrística de Leo Brouwer. Vol. II. Brouwer intérprete. (EGREM)

★ La obra guitarrística de Leo Brouwer. Vol. III. Re-creaciones. (EGREM)

★ La obra guitarrística de Leo Brouwer. Vol. IV. Conciertos para guitarra y orquesta. (EGREM)

★ La obra guitarrística de Leo Brouwer. Vol. V. Brouwer por los maestros Rey Guerra y Joaquín Clerch. (EGREM)

★ La obra guitarrística de Leo Brouwer. Vol. VI. Presencia en el Festival Internacional de guitarra... (EGREM)

★ La obra guitarrística de Leo Brouwer. Vol. VII. Ensambles con guitarras. (EGREM)

★ La obra guitarrística de Leo Brouwer. Vol. VIII. Actuaciones memorables. (EGREM)

★ Rara iClassics Link (Deutsche Grammophon) (original LP cover)

★ Leo Brouwer & Orquesta de Cordoba (GHA)

★ Pierri and Russell with Brouwer Acerca del cielo, el aire y la sonrisa (HOMA dream, HR1050 / 2,400JPY)

★ Leo Brouwer Collection Vol.1-6 (Frame)

★ Homoludens Brouwer with Chucho Valdés & Silvio Rodríguez (Producciones Colibrí CD-024 -- Instituto Cubano de la Música) [1]

★ Leo Brouwer - GuitArt Quartet Works for four guitars

★ Penny Lane - Leo and Ichiro with Ichiro Suzuki (鈴木一郎 or バルセロナ）(Camerata Tokyo) (original LP cover)

★ Leo Brouwer (Select Collection Classique)

★ Scarlatti: Douze Sonates (Erato)

Videos

★ Leo Brouwer - Diario Italico with GuitArt Quartet (2001)

★ Homoludens - DVD

Articles

★ Hablar con Leo

★ Cosmology in sounds (on Leo Brouwer's "La Espiral Eterna") by Eduardo Fernández

★ Let us play for our children A Reappraisal - for the Guitar Tutor (Clive Kronenberg, www.guitarramagazine.com)

★ Hombre que juega Pedro de la Hoz, 2004 (Granma)

Interviews

★ Once I compose the music, it is no longer mine (CubaNow)

★ An Interview With Leo Brouwer Guitar Review, No. 75

★ Leo Brouwer Artist Profile/Interview Classical Guitar Alive! (mp3)

★ Leo Brouwer y su aportación a la composición guitarrística de Vanguardia Carolina Queipo Gutirrez , 2002 (guitarra.artelinkado)

Bibliography

★ ''Leo Brouwer'' by Isabelle Hernández. (Andante. Editora Musical de Cuba) ISBN 959-7153-01-7

★ ''Gajes del oficio'' by Leo Brouwer [2]

Biography

★ Biography (also in Spanish and French)

★ Afro-Cuban Composer, Guitarist & Conductor (also in French)

★ Biography (Cubacine)

★ Brouwer on Music Web