Soli III

The Solis belong to the more "experimental", high-modernist strand of Chávez's compositional output, in contrast to the more traditional character of most of the large-ensemble works.

3 for harp, 1967) and the orchestral compositions Resonancias (1964), Elatio (1967), Discovery, Clio (both 1969), and Initium (1973), features an abstract, atonal musical language based on the principle of non-repetition.

[4] The first performance was given in a broadcast by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra under the composer's direction on 24 November 1965, in the Hans Rosbaud Hall in Baden-Baden.

[5] The Western Hemisphere premiere was given on the third concert of the Third Inter-American Music Festival in Caracas, Venezuela, on 16 May 1966, by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy.

The work is scored for four soloists: bassoon, trumpet, viola, and timpani, accompanied by an orchestra consisting of three flutes, three oboes, three clarinets, three bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon), four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, three percussionists, piano, two harps, and strings.