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7 December 2005 · Obituary · DE
Die Presse (p. 34, arts section): „Er musste spielen“ (Zum Tod des Wiener Jazzgitarristen Harry Pepl)
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Obituary with the headline quotation „Man könnte Klavierspielen müssen“ [“One might have to play the piano”] from the Concerto interview. It describes Real-time Composing, names Wes Montgomery and Jim Hall as well as Schoenberg and Webern as influences, and lists Erich Kleinschuster, the ORF Big Band (ORF: Austria's public broadcaster), JazzZwio, Jack DeJohnette, Art Farmer and Michel Portal as fellow musicians.
The virtuoso, who seemed so introverted on the outside, was bubbling away inside when he played.
He searched passionately: for truthfulness, a utopia in which all opposites coincide.
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6 December 2005 · Obituary · DE
Wiener Zeitung (p. 14, culture): „Jazzgitarrist Harry Pepl tot“
Short obituary based on the APA with his date of birth, partners such as the Benny Goodman Quintet, Dave Holland, Dino Saluzzi and Michel Portal, the Pirchner-Pepl-JazzZwio and his teaching at the Graz Academy of Music from 1977 to 1995, finally as full professor.
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6 December 2005 · Obituary · DE
Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung (p. 46, culture): „Jazzmusiker Pepl ist gestorben“
Short report based on the APA: Pepl was a guitarist known far beyond Austria and worked with the Benny Goodman Quintet, Dave Holland, Dino Saluzzi and Michel Portal; it gives Vienna as the place of death.
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5 December 2005 · Obituary · DE
APA-Basisdienst (APA0621, culture): „Österreichischer Jazzgitarrist Harry Pepl 60-jährig gestorben“ (Spielte mit vielen internationalen Größen)
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News agency report from the day of his death, Monday, 5 December 2005, 5.31 pm, on which many newspapers relied the next day. It mentions his guitar studies at the Vienna Academy of Music, his teaching in Graz from 1977 and his professorship from 1984 to 1995, the Pirchner-Pepl-JazzZwio, real-time composing and partners such as the Benny Goodman Quintet, Dave Holland, Dino Saluzzi and Michel Portal; the rector Otto Kolleritsch honours Pepl as an “exceptional figure”.
Pepl was regarded as a musical border-crosser whose music impressed with its vitality, density and emotion.
gifted guitarist
Otto Kolleritsch
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5 December 2005 · Obituary · DE
Der Standard (Online, APA-Meldung): „Jazzgitarrist Harry Pepl ist tot“
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APA report from the day of his death, put online on the afternoon of 5 December 2005: the report states that Pepl died early on Monday in Wiener Neustadt, aged 60. The text calls him a guitarist known far beyond Austria who had worked, among others, with the Benny Goodman Quintet, Dave Holland, Dino Saluzzi and Michel Portal. It is not the print article by Ljubiša Tošić of 6 December 2005.
He was a guitarist known far beyond Austria