 The Triadisches Ballett was conceived in 1912 in Stuttgart in a cooperation between the dance troupe of Albert Burger (1884–1970) and his wife Elsa Hötzel (1886–1966) and Oskar Schlemmer.Parts of the ballet were performed in 1915, but though Burger asked Arnold Schönberg to write the score ("Your music, which I know from the local concert, seemed to me to be the only one suitable for my ideas") he had no success so Schlemmer and the Burgers performed to music by Enrico Bossi.It premiered in the Stuttgart landestheater on 30-31 September 1922, with music composed by Paul Hindemith.