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Schwarzer Peter (1980)

Attersee & Gerhard Rühm

Attersee Rühm

Album title: Klaviertreiben
Title: Black Peter (Track 01)
Publisher: Gallery Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf/Vienna
Label: Gelerie Heike Curtze
Date: 1980, publ. 1981
Medium: record 30 cm
Edition: 400
Cover: Attersee

The album Klaviertreiben, published in 1981, is the recording of a concert that Christian Ludwig Attersee played together with Gerhard Rühm on two pianos. It took place at the opening of Attersee's exhibition Die Tischzärte in Gallery Heike Curtze in Düsseldorf on the 4th of December 1980.

Attersee and Rühm performed several times together, for example in 1980 at the Kunstmuseum Hannover with the concert Sehr selten gehörte Tanzmusik. Alongside Rühm, Oswald Wiener was part of the performance. In 1982, under the title Stimmklavier, Attersee and Rühm performed the libretto of the Schreker opera Der singende Teufel at the Museum of the 20th Century in Vienna.

The pieces on Klaviertreiben, like most of Attersee's concerts, are improvised and freely invented at the moment of performance. Attersee also seldom notated his music; if there were previous reflections or repeated concerts, he took his cue from the previous concert but never played the same thing twice.

Attersee divided his music into three or more broad directions: Speech, light music, and serious music. He developed the Attersee Matinees and performed with his dog, which
could sing some notes.

PS