Altenberg trio biography for kids

Altenberg Trio Vienna

It was not by coincidence that the three musicians came together under the name of the “gentle revolutionary” Peter Altenberg. The poet symbolizes the love of beauty and the adventure of life.

His devotion to stylistic precision is legendary, as is his keen sense of subtle humor and quiet irony.”Music is: as if the soul suddenly spoke its own tongue in a foreign language.”
Peter Altenberg (1859-1919)

The tradition of the Altenberg Trio Wien began in 1984, when pianist Claus-Christian Schuster
founded the Vienna Schubert Trio together with violinist Boris Kuschnir and cellist Martin Hornstein.
A re-founding followed in 1994, under the name “Altenberg Trio”, first with violinist Amiram Ganz
and later with cellist Alexander Gebert.

As “Trio in Residence” of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, it has been an essential fixture of Viennese cultural life for almost 40 years. There are few chamber music en