Juan María Solare: Reverence (Homage to Bach)

for solo violoncello, or solo viola, or violin solo, or trumpet solo.

Reverence: even if a person hates baroque music, he/she will respect Bach. He is one of the few composers before whom all musicians would spontaneously take off their hats. My reverence is based on the sounding letters of his surname (B-A-C-H), also transposed and treated as a four-note cell. It is difficult to determine, by listening, whether this piece is tonal or atonal: one of the riches hidden in this name.

Reverence (Homage to Bach) was composed in Bremen (North Germany) on February 14th, 2014 (notice the 14, Bach's number in gematria) in the frame of a call for works made by Maksim Velichkin, to whom the piece is dedicated.


Second version: for solo trumpet (Bremen, 16 Feb 2014)

Third version: for solo violin (Bremen, 22 Feb 2014)

Fourth version: for solo viola (Bremen, 27 Jan 2015)


The solo violin version was recorded by Antonio Spiller (former concertmaster in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) on a Baroque violin (and bow) built by Eduardo Angel Gorr (Cremona) in 2013. Recorded by Antonio Spiller with a Korg MR-2 High-Resolution Mobile Recorder. Recording edited and mastered by Juan María Solare (December 2015, remastered January 2023).


Find a video in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOCeTimW9M8

The 2023 remastered version was released in Spotify and all other digital streaming platforms on 17th March 2023. Edition, producer: Juan María Solare

(Reverence (Homage to Bach) in Spotify)


Juan María Solare, born 1966 in Argentina, works currently in Germany as composer, pianist (contemporary & tango) and teaching at the University of Bremen and at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste Bremen. His music has been performed in five continents. Thirty CDs of different performers include at least one piece of him. www.JuanMariaSolare.com.