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Peter Ablinger
Person · male · Austria · Schwanenstadt · born 1959 · died 2025 · recording since 1996
Austrian composer (1959–2025)
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Also known as ペーター・アブリンガー
Timeline
13 events▣ Album 10◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1
1950s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Werke 89-91
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2000s
2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography414 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1379571772
Biography
Peter Ablinger (15 March 1959 – 17 April 2025) was an Austrian composer and academic teacher who settled in Berlin in 1982. His focus was experimental music such as a set of works called White / Whitish, of various aspects of white noise. He founded and directed an ensemble, ran festivals and co-founded a publishing house. He taught internationally, including at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and the University of Huddersfield.
Life and career
Ablinger was born on 15 March 1959 in Schwanenstadt in Upper Austria. He attended the Graphik-HTL school in Linz and studied jazz piano from 1977 to 1982 in Graz. He also studied composition with Gösta Neuwirth in Graz and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati in Vienna. From 1982 onwards, he lived in Berlin where he taught experimental music and improvisation at the Musikschule Kreuzberg. He founded there the Zwischentöne ensemble in 1988 and directed it until 2007.
Ablinger focused on chamber music ensembles until 1994, after which he was also involved in electro-acoustics and sound installation. Beginning in 1980 he began a set of works called "White / Whitish", which deals with various aspects of white noise. The works consist of 36 parts and uses various media: instruments, installations, objects, electro-acoustic pieces, note plays, prose, plays, music without sound. In 2005 he put on a "unique opera project" in Graz. His works were played at festivals such as Vienna Festival and Neue-Musik-Festival Wien Modern. He was a co-founder of the Zeitvertrieb publishing house in 1999.
Beginning in 1993 Ablinger was a visiting professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and from 2012 to 2017 research professor at the University of Huddersfield. He lectured at the Institute for Living Voice, Buenos Aires, Columbia University, New York, Bard College, New York, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung, Darmstadt, Manhattan School of Music, New York, and Yale University, Connecticut.
In May 2012, Ablinger was appointed as a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. The Academy of Arts holds the archive of his works.
Ablinger was awarded the Förderungspreis for music of the Berliner Kunstpreis in 1998, the Andrzej Dobrowolski composition prize for his life's work in 2008, and the Österreichischer Kunstpreis in 2020.
Ablinger died in Berlin on 17 April 2025, at the age of 66.
Writings
Ablinger, Peter; Gronemeyer, Gisela; Burke, Meaghan (2022). Now! : writings 1982–2021. [Germany]: MusikTexte. ISBN 978-3-9813319-8-1. OCLC 1298716149.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 11 | 82.8th |
| Studio albums | 10 | 91.1th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 13 | 89.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 25 | 55.9th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (11 release groups · 10 studio albums)
Albums · 10
1996 · studio album
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1La Fleur de Terezín / Monolith I und II18:082Annahme 2C⁺16:153Anfangen(:Aufhören)21:351998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 51:10
1Instrumente und ElektroAkustisch Ortsbezogene Verdichtung "das Blaue vom Himmel"14:402Schrift 215:103Solo für Cello9:084Monolog, Konzert für Violoncello und Computer12:12Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen / Ohne Titel / Quadraturen IV
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 51:26
1Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen22:142Ohne Titel12:263Quadraturen IV ("Selbstportrait mit Berlin"): 12:504Quadraturen IV ("Selbstportrait mit Berlin"): 22:505Quadraturen IV ("Selbstportrait mit Berlin"): 32:506Quadraturen IV ("Selbstportrait mit Berlin"): 42:507Quadraturen IV ("Selbstportrait mit Berlin"): 52:508Quadraturen IV ("Selbstportrait mit Berlin"): 62:362000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 48:20
1Grisailles (1-100)21:272Grisailles (1-100) (continued)26:532004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 12:22
1Gegrüßet seist du Maria0:222[untitled]0:023Abend 20:024Abend 30:025Abend 40:026Abend 50:027Abend 60:028Abend 70:029Abend 80:0210Rammallah3:4411Zib 11:0012Zib 21:0013Zib 31:0014Zib 41:0015Zib 51:0016Zib 61:0017Zib 71:0018Zib 81:002004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:14:28
1Instrumente und ElektroAkustisch Ortsbezogene Verdichtung "Red on Maroon": 12:382Instrumente und ElektroAkustisch Ortsbezogene Verdichtung "Red on Maroon": 212:353Instrumente und ElektroAkustisch Ortsbezogene Verdichtung "8 Vitrinen, Pigmentstaub": 13:154Instrumente und ElektroAkustisch Ortsbezogene Verdichtung "8 Vitrinen, Pigmentstaub": 239:275Weiss / Weisslich 24, Kirchen von St. Lambrecht 1-12: 14:116Weiss / Weisslich 24, Kirchen von St. Lambrecht 1-12: 24:117Weiss / Weisslich 24, Kirchen von St. Lambrecht 1-12: 34:108Weiss / Weisslich 24, Kirchen von St. Lambrecht 1-12: 44:012008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 55:27
1[untitled]19:232[untitled]18:553[untitled]17:092009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:15:48
1Voices and Piano: Bertold Brecht2:362Voices and Piano: Gertrude Stein3:453Voices and Piano: Lech Walesa3:024Voices and Piano: Morton Feldman5:105Voices and Piano: Hanna Schygulla2:376Voices and Piano: Mao Tse-Tung6:387Voices and Piano: Guillaume Apollinaire3:208Voices and Piano: Bonnie Barnett3:029Voices and Piano: Jean-Paul Sartre5:4210Voices and Piano: Martin Heidegger4:3711Voices and Piano: Marcel Duchamp4:5112Voices and Piano: Heimito von Doderer3:1013Voices and Piano: Orson Welles2:5214Voices and Piano: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu (Mother Theresa)1:3515Voices and Piano: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann3:3916Voices and Piano: Hanns Eisler3:2117Voices and Piano: Ezra Pound4:1118Voices and Piano: Ilya Prigogine7:3519Voices and Piano: Pier Paolo Pasolini4:05Shlomowitz: Popular Contexts / Ablinger: Voices and Piano
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:08:47
1Popular Contexts: Free Sound3:382Popular Contexts: Progressive Clock, Alarm Rock4:423Popular Contexts: Partial Pastoral Lobotomy7:334Popular Contexts: Resonant Coupling5:445Popular Contexts: Weird Twin3:366Popular Contexts: Discharge7:417Voices and Piano: Angela Davis4:228Voices and Piano: Carmen Baliero4:019Voices and Piano: Billie Holiday3:4110Voices and Piano: Arnold Schoenberg1:5711Voices and Piano: Nina Simone3:1112Voices and Piano: Alberto Giacometti4:0213Voices and Piano: Valentina Tereshkova1:3614Voices and Piano: Amaunalik6:5215Voices and Piano: Gjendine Slålien2:4116Voices and Piano: Jacques Brel3:302021 · studio album
Album · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Schiizo BoxSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 37:32Disc 1 A1Black & White2:00 A2Black & White2:00 B1At the End of the Day2:31 B2At the End of the Day2:31 Disc 2C1I...I...2:07 C2I...I...2:08 D1Kårl1:33 D2Kårl1:37 Disc 3E1Ballett2:37 E2Ballett2:39 F1Das ist doch kein echter Krieg2:08 F2Das ist doch kein echter Krieg2:10 Disc 41He Wouldn't Notice0:36 2He Wouldn't Notice0:36 3Lines1:50 4Lines1:48 Disc 513311:18 23451:21 3Meine kleine Schwester2:01 4Meine kleine Schwester2:01 | Compilation | 4 August 2014 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Peter Ablinger head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 11 | 82.8th |
| Studio albums | 10 | 91.1th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 13 | 89.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 25 | 55.9th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Awards & honours
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