Ablinger, Peter

(b Schwanenstadt, Upper Austria, 15 March

1959). Austrian composer. After studying jazz piano at the Graz
Hochschule fr Musik (19779), he studied composition privately
with Gsta Neuwirth (1979). He continued his studies at the Vienna
Music Academy (197982), where his teachers included
Haubenstock-Ramati. From 1982 until 1990 he taught at the
Kreuzberg Musikschule. His other activities have included founding
the ensemble Zwischentne (1988), and directing the zeit geben I
III, Klangwerkstatt (Berlin, 199092) and Insel Musik 24 (Berlin,
1997) festivals. He has served as guest conductor for various
ensembles in Vienna and Berlin, and as guest composer at the Graz
Institut fr Elektronische Musik (1996).
Ablinger has remarked, It is not what is different that counts but what
is the same; that is where the One can occur. This aesthetic posture
has led him to compose several series of works in which many of the
same elements carry over from one piece to the next. The first piece
in his series Weiss/Weisslich (1980) is a plea for perception beyond
the linear; the series as a whole is to be understood in terms of nonlinear actualizations of a sound, a place, a presence. Ohne Titel/14
Instrumentalisten (1992) aims to show that all is in one by directing
attention to timbre, articulation and intonation rather than to a
musical narrative. A combination of monotone and rushing sound
in Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen both undertaxes and overtaxes
the listener. Linear time is finally annulled and space for presence is
created. In Instrumente und ElektroAkustisch Ortsbezogene
Verdichtung(1995) a traditional concert situation is electroacoustically condensed into a simultaneity, the temporal sequence
occurs all at once, raised up in a moment.
WORKS
series
Weiss/Weisslich, 198095
Ohne Titel: [I] (Mappe 4 der berlegungen), pf, 19849; [II] (Mappe 13a der
berlegungen), sax, 198490; [III] (Mappe 13b der berlegungen), sax, 198490;
[IV] 3 fl, 198991; [V] fl, t sax, b cl, tpt, trbn, tuba, pf, 2 perc, str qt, db, 1992; [VI] 3
pf, 1992; [VII] 2 cl, 1993; [VIII] 3 x 3 Instrumentalisten (Der Mantel des heiligen

Jakob), 3 fl, 3 tpt, 3 perc, 19934

Instrumente und ElektroAkustisch Ortsbezogene Verdichtung: [I] (das Blaue vom
Himmel), vc, 19957; [II] (fr Johann Michael Fischer), 2 trbn, 2 vc, 19957; [III]
(Luterung des Eisens), sax, pf, perc, 1995; [IV] (Portraits), 2 vn, 19956
Instrumente und Rauschen: [I] (Veronica), vn, CD, 19956; [II] pic, CD, 19967; [III]
(24 Short Pieces) (Ablinger), 1v, sax, bandoneon, pf, 2 perc, vn, CD, 1996

other works
Inst ens: Der neuvermhlte Hermaphrodit zufllig, und mit sich selber, pf trio,
198081; Rve dEnfer (Mappe 7b der berlegungen), fl, pf, 19849; 5 Stcke
(Mappe 7a der berlegungen), fl, pf, 19849; Annahme 2, ob, str trio, ad lib inst,
1989; Verkndigung, fl, sax, pf, 1990; Grisailles 1100, 3 pf, 19913; Ins Nasse 2,
dancer, t sax, gui, pf, diverse materials, live elecs, 1991; Regenstck 16, perc,
1993; Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen, chbr orch, 1994; Sthle, Bambus,
Sonnenaufgang, Sonnenuntergang, 36 chairs, 6 bamboos, 19967
Vocal: Ens (Ablinger), Mez, fl, va, gui, pf, perc, 1987; 3 Minuten fr Berenice I, S,
dancer, 1988; Ins Nasse (Aria al fresco) (Ablinger), Mez, pfmr, improvising ens,
1990; 3 Minuten fr Berenice II, S, dancer, 1991; Weisse Litanei (Ablinger), 7 female
vv, 1991
Solo inst: Traktat, fl, 1984; ist ein Auszug aus , vn, 1985, unfinished;
Vergissmeinnicht/Unwirkliche Vernderungen IVIII (Mappe 10a der berlegungen),
pf, 1986; Vergissmeinnicht/Unwirkliche Vernderungen IVIII (Mappe 10b der
berlegungen), hp, 198691; Zwei halbe Kreise (3 Solos): Escapse, t sax, tape,
19869, und Vibraphon, vib, 19879; Klavierstudien 19 (Mappe 14 der
berlegungen), pf, 199092; La fleur de Terezn (Monolith III), trbn, 12 tape
recorders, 199091; Anfangen (: Aufhren), vn, 1991
Principal publisher: Ariadne

BIBLIOGRAPHY
C. Becher: Im Raum der Prsenz: eine Annhrung an Peter
Ablinger mit Kommentaren des Komponisten, Ton [ISCM,
Vienna] (1993), sum., 1618
A. Vejvar: Wie die Zeit vergeht!, sterreichische Musik Musik
in sterreich: Beitrage zur Musikgeschichte Mitteleuropas, ed.
E.T. Hilscher (Tutzing, 1997), 65162
ANDREAS VEJVAR