Soli IV

Soli IV is a brass trio written in 1967, the last of a series of four works by Mexican composer Carlos Chávez, each featuring a succession of solos.

In contrast to the more traditional character of most of Chávez's large-ensemble work, the Solis belong to the more "experimental", high-modernist strand of his compositional output, which features an abstract, atonal musical language based on the principle of non-repetition.

[3] Soli IV was commissioned by Mario di Bonaventura for the Hopkins Center Congregation for the Arts at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire.

It was premiered in the Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins Center on 9 August 1967 by Robert Pierce, horn, Dominick de Gangi, trumpet, and Dean Werner, trombone.

[4] In Soli IV, the foreground is taken first by the horn, then the trumpet, and finally the trombone[5] The instrumental solos, however, are often submerged in the ensemble interaction.