Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (born March 1, 1939 in Havana) is a Cuban composer, conductor, and guitarist.
He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona y Casado, and the great-nephew of composer Ernesto Lecuona.
As a child, Brouwer received his initial stimulus from his father, a physician, who was an aficionado of Villa-Lobos, Tárrega and Granados. He initiated his son encouraging him to play these composers' works, mostly by ear.
Young Brouwer received his first formal guitar instruction from the noted Cuban guitarist and pedagogue Isaac Nicola, in turn a disciple of Emilio Pujol. 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.
In 1970 Brouwer played in the premiere of El Cimarrón by Hans Werner Henze in Berlin. Together with Morton Feldman, he was awarded a 1972 scholarship by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) being guest composer and lecturer of Academy of Science and Arts of Berlin. In Germany Brouwer also recorded a number of LPs for Deutsche Grammophon.
I, I, I, I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book
I, I, I, I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book
To warm your cold, cold blood
I, I, I, I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book
To warm your cold, cold blood
I, I, I, I
Goodbye fascist blind man
Goodbye drunken doctor
Goodbye Finnish beauty
Let the people stop and wonder
Anna, Gerald, Henry Waugh
Let this longing retire
I will purge my shelf of classics
Watch them fade upon the fire
I, I, I, I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book
To warm your cold, cold blood
I, I, I, I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book
To warm your cold, cold blood
I, I, I, I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book
To warm your cold, cold blood
To warm your cold, cold blood