Ekphrasis in music: the Magic Squares by Paul Klee in the Sonata for solo guitar by Leo BrouwerFor Siglind Bruhn, the concept of ekphrasis, used on visual arts and literature, can be applied to certain pieces of music. Starting from this concept, developed by Bruhn on the work Musical Ekphrasis: composeres responding to poetry and painting, the present article investigates the appropriation that the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer (1939 - ) makes, on the first movement of his Sonata for solo guitar, of certain compositional procedures used by the Swiss painter Paul Klee (1879-1940) in his series of pictures entitled Magic Squares, characterizing, thus, an ekphrasis.
ekphrasis; Brouwer; Sonata; Klee; Magic Squares
