Chronology
Life and work year by year. Every entry is documented; we welcome additions and corrections.
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1990s
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August 1994
Second brain haemorrhage
Upper Austria
In August 1994 Pepl suffers a second brain haemorrhage. From 1994/95 he then withdraws completely from life on tour and from public view; only a few performances follow. For him, who lived from playing together in the moment, this is deeply painful and tragic. Yet he makes the best of it, first at the piano, then with the Lonely Single Swinger Band.
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1996
Withdrawal from the stage
Hernstein
After the two brain haemorrhages of 1989 and 1994 Pepl has withdrawn from life on tour and from public view; the earlier website gives 1996. After 1994 there are no more planned concerts of his own; in December 1997 he joins in once more at the INNtöne festival in Upper Austria, in changing line-ups, mainly on piano and drums. He makes the best of it: first at the piano, because the guitar has become too analytical for him, then in his home studio in Hernstein, Lower Austria, with the Lonely Single Swinger Band, highly productive until 2005. Peter Paul Skrepek records his words: „Jetzt, wo ich alles spielen kann, was ich will, darf ich nicht mehr.“ [“Now that I can play everything I want, I’m no longer allowed to.”]
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1999 to 2001
Jury member in federal music funding
Vienna
From autumn 1999 Pepl sits on juries of the arts section of the Federal Chancellery, each time together with the composer Paul Hertel and the composer and organist Michael Radulescu: in 1999 on the jury for the Förderungspreis für Musik (a federal music prize) in the category of orchestral works, in 2000 on the jury for the Staatsstipendien (state grants) for composers and in the second half of 2001 on the jury for the composition grants. This is recorded in the Kunstberichte, the government’s annual reports to the Austrian parliament on federal arts funding.
Kunstberichte at the Austrian Parliament: 1999, p. 106; 2000, p. 100; 2001, p. 95
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