Augusto Brandt (1892 in Puerto Cabello – 1942 in Caracas) was a Venezuelan composer and violinist.
[1] The son of German immigrants, and younger brother of writer Carlos Brandt, he had piano lessons with Ana Jhan Wittestone as a child, and composed his first pieces at the age of six.
In the municipal theatre of his town, in 1910, he composed a triumphal march for the centenary of the independence of Venezuela.
With a scholarship of 60 bolivares from the Puerto Cabello local government official Lopez Bello, on December 23, 1909, he went to Belgium.
There, he was a pupil of César Thomson at the Brussels Conservatory, from which he graduated with first prize in the violin.