Thomas Pernes (25 February 1956 – 26 February 2018) was an Austrian
avant-garde
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composer and
performance artist who lived and worked in
Vienna
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. He studied piano with
Bruno Seidlhofer
Bruno Georg Seidlhofer (5 September 1905 – 19 February 1982) was an Austrian pianist, organist, academic teacher and piano teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Life
Born in Vienna, Seidlhofer taught piano at the Aca ...
and composition with
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati ( he, רוֹמן האובּנשׁטוֹק-רָמָתִי; 27 February 1919 – 3 March 1994) was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.
Life
Haubenstock-Ramati was born in Kraków. He stud ...
.
The start of his career in
contemporary music was marked by the première of the 1st string quartet at Wiener Konzerthaus in 1976. Already in the early 1980s he had widened the narrow sphere of interest of the classical avant-garde. At a time when the term
crossover
Crossover may refer to:
Entertainment
Albums and songs
* ''Cross Over'' (Dan Peek album)
* ''Crossover'' (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles album), 1987
* ''Crossover'' (Intrigue album)
* ''Crossover'' (Hitomi Shimatani album)
* ''Crossover'' (Yoshino ...
was not yet known he worked with elements of
folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...
and
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
just as he used electronics to enlarge the possibilities of composition.
In the 90s he started developing his own form of
music theatre
Music theatre is a performance genre that emerged over the course of the 20th century, in opposition to more conventional genres like opera and musical theatre. The term came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s to describe an avant-garde approac ...
, known as Klangtheater: "When Thomas Pernes speaks about sound theater as representation or reproduction of reality, one should think not only superficially of the everyday elements such as sound, fragments of conversation, thought, and quotation that are built into the montage. It is rather and above all the unity that arises paradoxically from disparate and divergent elements and their individual motions that corresponds in its dialectical structure to reality. As
Hegel says about reality and truth, so too is the sound theater ''the Baccahanalisn revel in which no member is not drunk''."
Pernes has had performances and commissions at:
Donaueschinger Musiktage,
ISCM
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music.
The organization was established in Salzburg in 1922 as Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) following the ...
World Music Days in Jerusalem, Daiichiseimei Hall / Tokyo,
IRCAM
IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...
/ Paris,
Kennedy Center
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potom ...
of the Performing Arts / Washington, Pan Music Festival / Seoul,
Alte Oper
Alte Oper (Old Opera) is a concert hall in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. It is located in the inner city, Innenstadt, within the banking district Bankenviertel. Today's Alte Oper was built in 1880 as the city's opera house, which was destr ...
Frankfurt, Europäisches
Musikfest Stuttgart,
Holland Festival
The Holland Festival () is the oldest and largest performing arts festival in the Netherlands. It takes place every June in Amsterdam. It comprises theatre, music, opera and modern dance. In recent years, multimedia, visual arts, film and archit ...
/ Amsterdam,
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
, Musikprotokolle im
steirischen herbst,
Wiener Staatsoper
The Vienna State Opera (, ) is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August Si ...
,
Internationales Brucknerfest Linz,
Ars Electronica,
Wiener Festwochen
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The Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival) is a cultural festival in Vienna that takes place every year for five or six weeks in May and June. The Wiener Festwochen was established in 1951, when Vienna was still occupied by the four Alli ...
,
Wiener Musikverein
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The acoustics of the building's 'Great ...
amongst others.
He died on 26 February 2018, one day after turning 62.
"Der Komponist Thomas Pernes ist tot"
''Kleine Zeitung
''Kleine Zeitung'' (, ''Small Newspaper'') is an Austrian newspaper based in Graz and Klagenfurt. As the largest regional newspaper in Austria, covering the federal states Styria and Carinthia with East Tyrol, the paper has around 800,000 readers ...
'' (Austria), 2 March 2018
Works
* Klaviertrio (1971)
* String Quartet No. 1 (1976)
* Reflexionen für Violoncello solo (1976)
* Zyklus für Violine solo: Fragmente, Mobilissimum, Partita, Aria (1977)
* Variations for piano (1978)
* Partita for cello solo (1978)
* Portrait I (1977)
* Portrait II (1979)
* Concerto (1979/80)
* Con Alcune Licenze (1980)
* Hommage à Schubert (1980)
* Gleichsam eine Sinfonie kind of symphony(1980/81)
* Double Concert for Harp and Double Bass (1982)
* Gesänge für neun Instrumente (1982)
* Für ... Bei ... Mit ... (1982)
* Drei Lieder für Bariton und Klavier (1982)
* 1. Klaviersonate (1982/83)
* Zwei Lieder für Bariton solo (1982/83)
* Gaudeamus auf eine Angebetete (1983)
* Violinkonzert (1983)
* Piano solo (1983)
* Alpenglühn: Ballettmusik (1983/84)
* Linz-Musik: Ballettmusik (1984)
* Theseus und Ariadne: Ballettmusik (1984)
* Sonate für Violoncello solo: "... leise verließ am Kreuzweg der Schatten den Fremdling", Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl (3 February 1887 – 3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. He is perhaps best known for his poem " Grodek", which he wr ...
(1984/85)
* Rückblende: für Chor, großes Orchester, Soli und Zuspielband (1985)
* Zur Eröffnung (1986)
* Das Herz: Vertonung nach Gedichten von Wolfgang Bauer (1986)
* Voices (1986)
* Herr Faust spielt Roulette: Schauspielmusik zum gleichnamigen Stück von Wolfgang Bauer (1986)
* Klangtheater (1987/88)
* Neue Gesänge aus Klangtheater (1987)
* Trio (1988)
* Two Poems of the Day (1988)
* Grosse Conclusio (1988)
* The End of the World News: Oper nach Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.
Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire ''A Clockwork ...
(1989)
* Beginnen (1990)
* 3. Streichquartett (1990)
* Innocent I: Performance (1990)
* What it is (1990)
* Amadeus (1991)
* Part of Voices (1991)
* Innocent II: Performance (1991)
* 2. Klangtheater: Breakaway (1991/92)
* Tänze der Trauer und der Freude (1992)
* Innocent III (1992)
* Songs of an Imaginary Voice (1992)
* Ohne Beirrung (1992/93)
* 4. Streichquartett: "... diese zerbrochene Zeit" (1993/94)
* Perikato / Blackbox I und II: Konzept und Gruppenprojekt mit Karl Ritter (1994/95/98)
* Sonnwende (1995)
* Alpenglühn II (1995)
* Drei Kapitel aus der grossen Erzählung (1995/96)
* Miss Potter hat es sich anders überlegt: Hörspielmusik (1995/96)
* Back to the Roots (1996)
* Revolution Nr. 10: Radio-Experience (1996)
* Das Bild, radiophone Fassung (1997)
* 3. Klangtheater: Das Bild (1997)
* Solo für Violine aus Das Bild (1997)
* Grosse Blasmusik (1998)
* Spielmusik für Violine und präpariertes Klavier (1998)
* Solo für Eckstein (1999)
* Hödlmoser: Opernfragmente (2000)
* Eine Winterreise: für Sopran und Streichquartett (2001/02)
* Der Hirt auf dem Felsen: Orchesterfassung der Konzertarie von Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
(2002)
* Sea of Rains: Radio-Experience (2002)
* Quartetto Doppio: "Jack in the Box" (2003)
* 4. Klangtheater: Das Fenster zum Paradies (2003/04)
* Perndorff: Gruppenprojekt with (2003/04)
* Zauberflöte 06: opera in 3 parts (2004/05)
* HELIOS: für Streichorchester (2005)
* Herrn Johann's Affären: ein kurzer Auszug aus dem Register (2006)
* Aus der Fremde: Musiktheater nach Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl (; 1 August 1925 – 9 June 2000) was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. He became known for his experimental lyric, mainly sound poems (''Sprechgedichte'') in the tradition of concrete and visual poetic forms.
Poetry
Inf ...
(2007/08)
Discography
* String Quartet No. 1 (CD + LP, Pro Viva 1977)
* Piano solo (LP, Teepee 1983)
* Violinkonzert (LP, ORF 1983)
* Linz-Musik (LP, Teepee 1984)
* Alpenglühn (LP, Amadeo 1984)
* Zur Eröffnung (7", Extrasingle 1986)
* Klangtheater (CD, Amadeo 1988)
* 2. Klangtheater: Breakaway (CD, Teepee 1992)
* Sonnwende (CD, Teepee 1995)
* Perikato Blackbox I (CD, Blackbox 1995)
* Für ... Bei ... Mit ... (CD, ORF 1997)
* Perikato Blackbox I und II (CD, Teepee 1998)
* Perndorff (CD, NotTwo 2004)
* 4. Klangtheater: Das Fenster zum Paradies (DVD, Extraplatte 2004)
* Sonnwende – Alpenglühn (CD, Extraplatte 2006)
* Zauberflöte 06 (CD, Extraplatte 2006)
* Streichquartette (CD, Brucknerhaus 2007)
References
External links
Thomas Pernes
biography and works, Universal Edition
Universal Edition (UE) is a classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, they originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market (which had until then been dominated by Leipzig-bas ...
*
Thomas Pernes
at Last.fm
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1956 births
2018 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Austrian male classical composers
20th-century male musicians
Musicians from Vienna