Gestenstücke ["Pieces with gestures" or "gesture pieces"] is a key work by Argentine-born composer Juan María Solare

Juan María Solare

Juan María Solare is an Argentine composer and pianist.-Education:Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solare studied and received his diploma in piano , composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo...

 for four performers (mimes). In this piece, mute gestures are ordered with musical rules, following Solare's main conception of Neues Musiktheater: "To order non-musical elements (even non-sounding ones) with musical rules". [Quotation needeed]

The work was composed in a hurry in the train Berlin to Bremen on 13 April 2008 (Solare needed urgently new material for his seminar on music theatre at the University in Bremen) with a total duration of about 13 minutes. Its parts are:

• I - Canon a 4. [3'00] Premiere: Ensemble Neues Musiktheater (Wolfgang Dürr, Mauricio López, Lidia Revina, Nalini Bhat; conductor: Juan María Solare), University of Bremen
  University of Bremen
  The University of Bremen is a university of approximately 23,500 people from 126 countries that are studying, teaching, researching, and working in Bremen, Germany...
  
  , 12/JUN/2008.
• II - Acumulación-Desacumulación 1. [2'00] Premiere: Ensemble Neues Musiktheater (Wolfgang Dürr, Aylin Leysieffer, Joaquín Buitrago & Mauricio López; conductor: Juan María Solare) on 5/FEB/2009 at the theatre of the University of Bremen
  University of Bremen
  The University of Bremen is a university of approximately 23,500 people from 126 countries that are studying, teaching, researching, and working in Bremen, Germany...
  
  .
• III - Tutti unisono. [3'00]
• IV - Acumulación-Desacumulación 2. [2'00]
• V - Gruppendialog. [3'00]