Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596572

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Instructional,Spiritual. Score and parts. 8 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4794205. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596572).

Mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam was composed in Bremen (Germany) on 30th January 2017, shortly after knowing about the death of Uwe Kolkmeyer, musician and caricaturist to whom it is dedicated in memoriam.

 

The title refers to a thought by Carl Sagan: planet earth is a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. An old idea that, of course, was not expressed by him for the first and only time. In Sufism exists an allegory (attributed to Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi) according to which the essences of the possible beings do exist in the darkness before being manifested by the divine light, as the motes of dust suspended in the air in a darken room don't become visible until they are lit by a light ray.

 

A certain optimistic atmosphere in this work may surprise, the opposite of what is usually associated with death. In my works the tonality of A major often expresses consolation.

 

Selma Hande Gade (a Turkish pianist that lives in Denmark), with whom we had discussed possible titles for this work, recorded a home video in March 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtzhHqB_Nb4

 

After listening to this recording, Luis Alberto Vittor wrote a report on this work for the blog Analecta Literaria (https://actaliteraria.blogspot.com), it will be published soon.

 

The composer made a commercial recording for the label Janus Music & Sound (JMS-999), which is available on iTunes, Spotify (and similar platforms). Release day: 26th July 2017 (birthday of both the dedicatee, Uwe Kolkmeyer and of Ibn Arabi).

Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596548

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. Score and parts. 8 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4405060. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596548).

Conjeturas sistemáticas (Systematic conjectures)

 for piano four hands

A piece composed in Bremen (North Germany) between 8th and 10th March 2013, about 4 minutes long, and dedicated to Mario García Acevedo in memoriam (who died on March 6, 2013 in Buenos Aires).

The title alludes to a phrase that Mario García Acevedo said en passant during a lecture in SADAIC remembering the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rodolfo Caracciolo:

True science is a set of systematic and ordered suspicions.

I altered this thought slightly, because systematic suspicions seemed to me a more suitable title for a detective novel.

Musically speaking, this piece uses modulating pandiatonism, a technique that I used in several other pieces as well.

 

Mario García Acevedo was one of those few people who can be said to have been wise in the most complete and overwhelming sense of the word. He was one of my teachers at the (ex) National Conservatory of Music, I no longer remember teacher of what, because he was the kind of person who was an integral teacher, not of this or that. I had the pleasure of performing the European premiere of his work Amanecer in Bremen in 2008. Marito delivered a speech during the burial of Juan Carlos Zorzi, ending with the words Maestro: Until the Resurrection! Let his words be also valid for him.

Juan María Solare

Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596536

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,World. Score and parts. 11 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3866447. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596536).

Vendetta, for piano for hands

Vendetta [Vengeance] was composed in Bremen from 6 to 10 May 2017.

Premiere: by Juan María Solare and Selma Hande Gade, recital Piano from Lands of Passion at the Schott Recital Room in London, England.

Also performed by both musicians at the church St Martin within Ludgate in London.

 German premiere: by Juan María Solare and Selma Hande Gade, 2/NOV/2017 at the church St Stephani Kulturkirche, Bremen.

Premiere in Denmark: by Juan María Solare and Selma Hande Gade, 27/JAN/2018, Juhl Ohrensen (Steinway Hall), Copenhagen, Denmark. Also performed by both musicians at the Messiaskirken, Charlottenlund, Denmark, on 28/OCT/2018.

New performance planned in Istanbul, Turkey, in April 2019

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYpNbI9ztL8

 

Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596550

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Blues,Instructional,Latin,Sacred. Score and parts. 12 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4408887. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596550).

Blues en mí [Blues in E / Blues in me] for piano. Composed in Worpswede (Germany) from 9th to18th October 2001. Dedicated to Hans-Dieter Ludwig (H.D.). Duration: 3'20. First performance by the composer at the Music Hall in Worpswede on 3rd May 2002. This concert was filmed by Reinhard Hölker, who also held a scholarship at the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede.

 

The Argentine first performance was given by Cecilia Strack on 17th December 2003 at the Conservatorio de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, during a monographic concert (Compositions for Piano by Juan María Solare) organised by the Professors Silvia Dabul and Manuel Massone.

 

The title is a pan in Spanish: Blues in E minor / Blues in me.

 

At some moment I had a dream related with this piece. I cannot recall exactly when or where, but it must have been during 2003; any case not later. Possibly I've written it down somewhere, I will find it. Reconstructed by memory: It was an open-air concert, maybe in Worpswede. The audience sits down in banks around tables, eating; it is a kind of party. A music sounds that comes familiar to me. I recognized the Blues en mí. A young lady is performing it, whom I don't absolutely know. I ask myself: How could this lady get the score? She have possibly found it on the internet. And actually it was this dream that ended up convincing me to put some of my scores in Internet, beginning with the Blues en mí. According to my registers, I sent the sheet music to Mariano Rocca (webmaster of compositores e intérpretes, www.ciweb.com.ar) on 2nd November 2003 (ergo, this dream must have occurred before).

 

Juan María Solare

Worpswede, 15th February 2007

(four days after the dedicatee's death)

Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596619

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Instructional. Score and parts. 25 pages. Juan Maria Solare #6318303. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596619).

Juan María Solare: Tea Stories

Four pieces for piano four hands

 

1) Reading Tea Leaves  [4'00]

2) Tea Break  [1'30]

3) Spill The Tea  [2'00]

4) Tempest in a Teacup  [3'15]

Approximate total duration: 10:45

The difficulty level of these pieces is relatively low (except for the last piece). The third piece is easier to play than to read.

The titles are English idioms refered to the tea.

Spill the tea is used when the interlocutor is required to tell some gossip about something.

Tempest in a teacup is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.

Music composed mostly in Bremen (Germany) in September 2017 and August 2019. The third piece was added later but was wished from the beginning.

Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596598

By John Lennon And The Plastic Ono Band. By John Lennon. Arranged by Juan María Solare. Film/TV. Score and parts. 6 pages. Juan Maria Solare #6016519. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596598).

John Lennon's signature song Imagine needs nearly no presentation.
This version is for piano duet, i.e. piano four hands.
My intention as arranger was NOT to make this score easy. My intention was to make it accurate. Something that you can actually perform at concerts - even of classical music (perhaps as an encore?)

Expect a worldwide release of this recording on 18th September 2020 (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc.) through the label Janus Music & Sound. Artist: Juan María Solare (I recorded both parts: primo and secondo). The single will be called Lennon on Piano (and will also include Lennon's lesser known song Cry Baby Cry - if you are interested in this score, find it also on Sheet Music Plus) but for solo piano.

Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596567

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Jazz,Latin. Score and parts. 14 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4699827. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596567).

A post-moder tango , obsessive and scathing.

Persecuta (word from slang of the River Plate): persecutory mania, a form of paranoia.

Composed by Juan María Solare. Contemporary Classical, Repertoire, Latin, South American, Funeral. Score. 8 pages. Published by Juan Maria Solare (S0.257569). - Score - Contemporary Classical,Repertoire,Latin,South American,Funeral - Juan Maria Solare