Jose Broca (in Catalan: Antoni Josep Mateu Brocà i Codina) (September 21, 1805 – February 3, 1882) was a Spanish guitarist and composer of the Romantic period.
Brocá was born in Reus, in the province of Tarragona. He was mainly self-taught on the guitar, but also studied briefly with Dionisio Aguado. He was considered an outstanding guitarist. As a teacher in Barcelona, Felipe Pedrell and José Ferrer were among his most famous students, both of whom dedicated compositions to him (and vice versa). He was a friend of Julián Arcas.
In his teaching, Brocá used Aguado’s method. Brocá died in Barcelona.
Brocá composed about twenty works for guitar; Bone (1914/54) describes his Opus 19 (Fantasia and Tone Poem) as his “most important guitar composition.” Brocá’s music was praised for its elegance and stylistic similarity to Tárrega, even though it is several decades older.