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1991 · Portrait · DE
Kulturpreis des Landes Niederösterreich (Broschüre 1991, Preisträgerdatenbank): „Spontane Klangerlebnisse“ (Anerkennungspreis 1991, Sparte Musik)
Tribute text from the 1991 culture prize brochure on the Lower Austrian Recognition Prize in the music category, now online in the state's database of prizewinners. It presents Pepl as a professor in Graz and a composer in demand: a piece for the internationally renowned Kronos Quartet is about to be premiered in Graz in the autumn of 1991, another for the Artis Quartet is planned. For two years he has been composing with his “instant” or “real-time composing”. Pepl admires Mozart, Schoenberg's piano works and Giacinto Scelsi, and has analysed the rhythmic precision of a Bach recording by Glenn Gould on his computer. The text also mentions his two years at Gerhard Bronner's “Fledermaus” bar, the ORF Big Band (ORF: Austria's public broadcaster), several wins in the Jazz Live readers' poll and Le Monde calling him a “giant of improvisation”.
It is hard to place Harry Pepl anywhere musically, and strictly speaking it is not even necessary.
Pepl, and he leaves no doubt about this in this conversation either, is a musician of the moment.
the leading French newspaper Le Monde crowned him, without further ado, a “giant of improvisation”
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3 August 1991 · Interview · DE
Der Standard (p. 13): „Harrys Schloß der Töne“
Ljubiša Tošić
Preview of the opening concert of the Lower Austrian Jazz Academy at Zeillern Castle on Sunday, 4 August 1991, in which Pepl appears with a quartet. Pepl says the programme is still open, perhaps it will be an entirely free affair, and enthuses about the seminar, where music is made all day long in the castle.
I like it when things stay open until the very last moment
In conversation before the opening concert of the jazz academy in Zeillern, Lower Austria, 1991
Harry Pepl
What did I want to avoid? Simply playing any old standards.
Harry Pepl
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25 September 1991 · Press release · DE
OTS (Originaltext-Service der APA), Aussendung des Landes Niederösterreich: „noe kulturpreise 1991 beschlossen: preisueberreichung im stadtsaal zwettl“
The Lower Austrian state government confirmed the state’s culture prizes for 1991 the day before. Harry Pepl is listed in the music category among the Förderungspreise (promotion prizes, 25,000 schillings each); the presentation was scheduled at the Stadtsaal in Zwettl.
The following Förderungspreise (encouragement prizes, 25,000 schillings each) were awarded: music: Harry Pepl
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2 December 1991 · Press release · DE
OTS (Originaltext-Service der APA), Niederösterreichische Landeskorrespondenz: „Außergewöhnlicheskonzert zum Abschluß“ (ZeitgeNÖssischer Herbst wurde Publikumserfolg)
Results of the third concert series “ZeitgeNÖssischer Herbst” of the state of Lower Austria (20 September to 28 November 1991, around 11,000 visitors, some 40 premieres). The series ended with a highly successful concert by the 1991 Lower Austrian culture prize winner Harry Pepl, whom the release calls a jazz pianist.
It came to a close with a hugely successful concert by this year’s winner of the Lower Austrian Culture Prize, the jazz pianist Harry Pepl.
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6 December 1991 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 11): „NÖ. Herbst: Erfolge mit Neuer Musik“
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Short review of the 1991 ZeitgeNÖssischer Herbst (77 concerts, around 11,000 listeners). Der Standard names as highlights the premiere of Horst Ebenhöh’s “Pfaffenberger Nacht” and the closing concert with Harry Pepl.
The highlights were the premiere of Horst Ebenhöh’s scenic humoresque “Pfaffenberger Nacht” and the closing concert with Harry Pepl.