🎀 Hispanic Heritage Month 🎸 Guitar gods: Barrios Mangoré performed in indigenous Guaraní costume, wrote 300+ works, and is considered the greatest guitarist-composer who ever lived by John Williams and Segovia alike 👑 Died unknown. Brouwer wrote études that every serious classical guitar student in the world plays — after a hand injury ended his performing career 🎸 VOTE BELOW👇 follow @daixcompose 💙
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🎀 Cute Composer Series: Hispanic Heritage Month — Guitar Gods 🎸✨🎶 Two composers who wrote music so beautiful and so difficult that guitarists dedicate their entire lives to it. Agustín Barrios Mangoré · 1885–1944 · Paraguay The greatest guitarist-composer who ever lived — according to John Williams, Andrés Segovia, and virtually every classical guitarist alive 🎸👑 He performed in indigenous Guaraní costume calling himself "the Paganini of the Guitar from the jungles of Paraguay," wrote over 300 works, and died largely unknown. His La Catedral is one of the most achingly beautiful pieces ever written for any instrument ✨ 🎧 La Catedral Leo Brouwer · b. 1939 · Cuba Cuba's greatest living composer and one of the most influential figures in classical guitar history 🇨🇺🎸 He began as a guitar virtuoso, shifted to composition and conducting after a hand injury, and built a body of work that moves from folk-flavored simplicity to fierce avant-garde experimentation. Every serious guitar student in the world plays his Études simples ✨ 🎧 Études simples 👉 Which one's music do you want to explore more? VOTE BELOW👇& follow @daixcompose for more Cute Composer spotlights 💙
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🎀 Hispanic Heritage Month 🎸 Guitar gods: Barrios Mangoré performed in indigenous Guaraní costume, wrote 300+ works, and is considered the greatest guitarist-composer who ever lived by John Williams and Segovia alike 👑 Died unknown. Brouwer wrote études that every serious classical guitar student in the world plays — after a hand injury ended his performing career 🎸 VOTE BELOW👇 follow @daixcompose 💙
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Recordings
🎶 Barrios: La Catedral (Ana Vidovic, guitar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v34upwKktYk) 🎶 Brouwer: Études simples (Ali Arya Ahmadian, guitar - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/05jH0vzKcmg)
Photo links
Barrios: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn_Barrios | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agustin-Barrios Brouwer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Brouwer | https://www.wise-music.com/composer/leo-brouwer/