Augusto Brandt

Augusto Brandt (* 1892 in Puerto Cabello , † 1942 in Caracas ) was a Venezuelan composer and violinist.

Life

The son of German immigrants and younger brother of the writer Carlos Brandt had piano lessons with Ana Jhan Wittestein as a child and composed his first pieces at the age of six. From 1903 he studied violin in Caracas . In 1910, a triumphal march he composed for the centenary of the revolution under Simón Bolívar was performed in the city's Teatro Municipal .

With a grant from the Venezuelan government, he went to Belgium. There he was a student of César Thomson at the Brussels Conservatory, where he graduated with first prize in violin. He then lived in New York , where he was first violinist in the orchestra of the Paramount Theater. He later switched to the orchestra of the radio station WOR . Here he worked first as the first violinist, later also as a solo violinist and conductor.

After the death of the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez , Brandt returned to Venezuela, where he and his brother Carlos earned a great reputation for their commitment to human rights.

Works

• Jesús aplaca la tormenta , 1898
• Marcha Triunfal , 1910
• Joropo de Concierto for violin
• Preludio en fa menor for piano
• Himno Panamericano , 1934
• Marcha Solemne
• Bolívar en el Panteón
• Dulce Ensueño
• Recuerdos de mi Tierra , waltz
• Canción de Cuna , waltz
• Tu partida , waltz
• Nocturno , waltz
• Desfile Militar , waltz
• Himno Bolivariano , waltz
• Súplica , waltz
• El adiós de las gaviotas , waltz
• Besos en mis sueños , waltz
• Adiós a las Gaviotas , Sonata-Fantasia for piano

literature

• José Antonio Cordido Roo: Augusto Brandt, historia y generalidades alrededor de su carrera artística . Editorial Grafolit, Caracas 1946.

Footnotes

1. ^ Luis Augusto Núñez: Génesis y evolución de la cultura en Carabobo . Ejecutivo del Edo. Carabobo, Secretaría de Educación y Cultura, Valencia 1967, Volume 2, p. 33.

Web link

• Martha Barroeta: Augusto Brandt o un violín enamorado , accessed on February 16, 2017.