Peter Ablinger

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. 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.

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