Commissioned works · 1996
Altenberg Trio Wien
Premiere of “Exzentrik Egometrik” at the steirischer herbst 1996
Viennese piano trio, founded in 1994 and named after the Viennese poet Peter Altenberg; trio in residence of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde with its own series in the Brahms Hall of the Musikverein, home of the Vienna Philharmonic. In 1996 it gave the premiere of Pepl's ballet music “Exzentrik Egometrik”.
Harry Pepl Composer
The Altenberg Trio Wien made its debut in January 1994 at the Mozart Week in Salzburg, Austria, and is trio in residence of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, with its own annual series in the Brahms Hall of the Musikverein, home of the Vienna Philharmonic.1 On Saturday, 19 October 1996, at the 13th Jugendmusikfest Deutschlandsberg (Styria, Austria), part of the steirischer herbst festival of contemporary art, it gave the premiere of Pepl's “Exzentrik Egometrik” in the Laßnitzhaus, ballet music for piano, violin, cello and tape with texts by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard; a repeat performance followed on Sunday, 20 October.2 From 1994 to 2004 the trio played with Claus-Christian Schuster (piano), Amiram Ganz (violin) and Martin Hornstein (cello).3 The archive of the steirischer herbst lists the evening as “ballett theater” with the Altenberg Trio and choreography by Christian Martinu, but names only Ernst Widmer and Mauricio Kagel as composers.4
Notes and sources (4)
- Website of the Altenberg Trio Wien (altenbergtrio.at), biography. ↩
- Der Standard, 18 October 1996, p. 706; details of the work according to mica (Austria's music information centre). ↩
- mica, database entry Altenberg Trio Wien (db.musicaustria.at/node/31391), members with years. ↩
- Archive of the steirischer herbst, project “ballett theater”, 19 and 20 October 1996 (archiv.steirischerherbst.at/en/projects/2406), accessed 19 October 2026. ↩