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He travels often to attend guitar festivals throughout the world, and especially to other Latin American countries. 6 “de Volos”
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He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory for 16 years and has freelanced in Greater Victoria for 25 years. Brouwer gave his first performance at 17 and soon was composing music as well.
Afterwards, Brouwer went to the United States to study music at the Hartt College of Music of the University of Hartford, and later at the Juilliard School, where he studied under Vincent Persichetti and took composition classes with 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. 2 “de Lieja”
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Guitar duo
- 1957–58 Micro piezas I–IV – Hommage à Darius Milhaud
- 1958 Micropieza V
- 1958 Tríptico
- 1973 Per Suonare a Due
- 1978 Música incidental campesina
- 2009 Sonata de Los Viajeros
- Beatlerianas for 2 guitars
- 2018 El Libro de los Seres Imaginarios (Dedicated to Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo)
Guitar quartet
- Canciones remotas
- Toccata para cuatro o más guitarras
- Toccata
- Paisaje Cubano Con Rumba
- Paisaje Cubano con lluvia
- Acerca del Cielo, el Aire y la Sonrisa (guitar quartet/guitar orchestra)
- Concerto Grosso
- Concerto de Tricastin
Guitar & orchestra
- 1958 Tres danzas concertantes
- 1979 Acerca del cielo, el aire y la sonrisa
- 1983 Retrats Catalans
- 1985 From Yesterday to Penny Lane
- 1995 Concierto Omaggio a Paganini (concerto for guitar and violin)
Guitar and string quartet
- 1958 Quintet for guitar and string quartet
Guitar concertos
- 1972 Concierto num.
He is a composer, conductor, and classical guitarist. It's completely free to download and try the listed sheet music, but you have to delete the files after 24 hours of trial. He has also written music for more than 100 films.
Brouwer's early compositions reflect a Cuban influence and are strongly rhythmic while his later works veer towards a more minimalist style.
Brouwer has also participated as a guitarist and composer in the festivals of Aldeburgh, Avignon, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Berlin, Toronto, Martinique, and Rome, among others.
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Leo Brouwer Sheet Music and Lessons for Classical Guitar – His full name is Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida born March 1, 1939 in Cuba.
For the event, Brouwer composed a piece utilizing an orchestra comprised of 200 guitarists.
Beyond his compositional output, Brouwer has conducted some of the world's leading orchestras including the Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin, BBC Concert Orchestra, Orchestra Nouvelle Philharmonic de Paris, and the Symphonic Orchestra of Madrid.
He has since written a number of large scale works, including concertos for flute and for guitar, though his name is best known in the field of solo guitar music.”
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Solo guitar
- 1955 Suite No.
1 Antigua
- 1955 Suite No. 2
- 1956 Preludio
- 1957 Danza Característica “Quítate de la Acera”
- 1956 Dos temas populares cubanos
- Canción de cuna (Berceuse), after Drume negrita by Emilio Grenet
- Ojos Brujos, after a criolla by Gonzalo Roig
- 1956 Piezas sin títulos I–II
- 1959 Fuga No.
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- 1959 Tres Apuntes
- 1962 Dos aires populares cubanos
- Guajira criolla
- Zapateo cubano (Zapateado)
- 1962 Pieza sin título III
- 1962 Tres piezas latinoamericanas
- Danza del Altiplano
- Canción Triste (after Carlos Guastavino)
- Tango (after Astor Piazzolla)
- 1964 Elogio de la Danza
- 1968 Canticum
- Eclosion
- Ditirambo
- 1968 Un Dia de Noviembre
- 1971 La Espiral Eterna
- 1972 Estudios Sencillos (Nos.
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He became a fine guitarist and had his first composition published at the age of 17. Initially we find folk music inspiring his compositions, but he later embraced the most advanced West European avant-garde techniques while founding a new Cuban school of composition. 11 “de Requiem (In memoriam Toru Takemitsu)”On his return to Havana he worked for the radio and was later appointed composition professor at the Havana Conservatory. 12 “Austral”
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He then became a descendant in an important guitar lineage: Isaac Nicola, his first real instructor, had studied under Emilio Pujol, who himself had been a student of Francisco Tárrega.