Emilio pujol guajira finale series#
He is known for a series of studies called the Etudes Simples. For a guitar competition in Hungary in 1979, he wrote a composition that employed 200 guitarists. īrouwer has written for guitar, piano, and percussion, and has composed orchestral works, ballet, and music for over one hundred movies, including the film Like Water for Chocolate. His playing career ended in the early 1980s due to an injury to a tendon in his right hand middle finger. The solo guitar works El Decamerón Negro (1981), Paisaje cubano con campanas (1986), and the Sonata (1990 for Julian Bream) exemplify this tendency. More recently, Brouwer's works have leaned towards tonality and modality. Other works from this period include the guitar pieces Canticum (1968), La espiral eterna (1971), Parábola (1973) and Tarantos (1974). 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.
In his early compositions, Brouwer remained close to the rhythms of Cuban music, while later he was drawn to aleatoric music. In Germany Brouwer also recorded a number of LPs for Deutsche Grammophon. Together with Morton Feldman, he was awarded a 1972 scholarship by the DAAD ( German Academic Exchange Service) and to work as a guest composer and lecturer at the Academy of Science and Arts of Berlin. In 1970 Brouwer played in the premiere of El Cimarrón by Hans Werner Henze in Berlin.
īrouwer 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. At age 17 he performed publicly for the first time and began composing. His teacher was Isaac Nicola, who was a student of Emilio Pujol, who was himself a student of Francisco Tárrega. When he was 13, he began classical guitar with the encouragement of his father, who was an amateur guitarist.
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