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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005
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2000s

  1. November 2000

    “Zeitraffer” at the Autumn Concerts in Graz

    Graz

    In November 2000 STUDIO PERCUSSION graz played Pepl’s “Zeitraffer” for percussion ensemble and tape at Berndt Luef’s “Autumn Concerts” at the Forum Stadtpark in Graz (Styria, Austria), alongside works by Adriana Hölszky and Iannis Xenakis. ORF (Austria’s public broadcaster) recorded the concert for its programme “Zeit-Ton”.

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  2. 28 July 2002 to 24 August 2002

    Muthspiel & Muthspiel play Pepl and Pirchner for the first time

    Krems an der Donau

    Commissioned by the Glatt & Verkehrt festival (idea: Josef Aichinger) and as part of the campaign “Kunst gegen Gewalt” (Art against violence), Wolfgang Muthspiel and Christian Muthspiel presented their programme with the music of the Jazzzwio on Sunday, 28 July 2002, at 9 pm in the Minoritenkirche in Krems-Stein (Lower Austria, Austria). On Saturday, 24 August 2002, they played it at 3 pm at the 24th International Jazzfestival Saalfelden (Salzburg, Austria). Wolfgang Muthspiel had studied with Pepl in Graz until he moved to Boston in 1986.

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  3. 24 November 2002 to 1 December 2002

    Muthspiel & Muthspiel play Pepl and Pirchner

    Austria

    After the premiere in the summer, the brothers Wolfgang Muthspiel and Christian Muthspiel tour Austria in autumn 2002 with the programme “Muthspiel & Muthspiel play Pepl-Pirchner”. It is their tribute to the Jazzzwio and to Werner Pirchner, who died in 2001, and their first engagement with composed material. „Wir werden die Musik in unsere Sprache zu übersetzen versuchen“ [“We will try to translate the music into our own language”], says Wolfgang Muthspiel. Besides pieces from the three Jazzzwio LPs, unreleased material and their own compositions inspired by Pirchner and Pepl are planned. According to the Edition Werner Pirchner calendar, the tour ran from 24 November to 1 December 2002 to Oberwart, Vienna (Porgy & Bess), Hallein, Wels, Hall in Tirol, Dornbirn and Deutschlandsberg; further concerts followed from 2003 to 2006, including at the Treibhaus Innsbruck and the Glass Hall of the Vienna Musikverein (2005).

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  4. 22 January 2003

    Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio pays tribute to Pepl in Dornbirn

    Dornbirn

    The trio of Wolfgang Muthspiel with Marc Johnson and Brian Blade opened the spring programme of “Jazz&”, as the jazz series of the Spielboden is called, at the Spielboden in Dornbirn (Vorarlberg, Austria), on Wednesday, 22 January 2003, playing standards, pieces by Thelonious Monk and Vince Mendoza and music by his teacher Pepl. According to the Vorarlberger Nachrichten the band was warming up for its next record; in 2004 the same line-up released “Air, Love & Vitamins”.

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  5. 20 November 2003 to 22 November 2003

    Muthspiel & Muthspiel: 20 years as a duo with the music of the Jazzzwio

    Vienna

    In the twentieth year of their duo, Wolfgang and Christian Muthspiel played the music of the Jazzzwio together with Pirchner’s film “Der Untergang des Alpenlandes”: on 20 November 2003 at the Porgy & Bess in Vienna (Der Standard gives the 21st), at the Graz jazz club M59, where they had heard the Jazzzwio as listeners some 25 years earlier, and on Saturday, 22 November 2003, at the Treibhaus in Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria).

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  6. 17 September 2004

    “Habanero-Slide-Show” at the Blue Tomato, Vienna

    Vienna

    First performance of music by the Lonely Single Swinger Band with live musicians and photos by Rainer Rygalyk. Pepl was present at the concerts.

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  7. 4 November 2004

    Salzburger Jazzherbst

    Salzburg

    At the ninth Salzburger Jazzherbst (jazz festival in Salzburg, Austria), Rainer Rygalyk and Harry Pepl presented their “Habanero” slide show on Thursday, 4 November 2004, at 7.30 pm in the ORF regional studio in Salzburg (Nonntal), in a double bill with the Gerald Preinfalk Trio. Lorenz Raab, Wolfgang Schiftner and Clemens Salesny played live to Pepl's recordings in front of photos by Rainer Rygalyk. There is no live recording, because Pepl rejected an unpaid ORF (Austria's public broadcaster) broadcast. At the rehearsal Pepl explained his music and his concepts to the three young musicians; Clemens Salesny later became the central figure of the Lonely Single Swinger Band's live performances.

    Black-and-white photo from the rehearsal for the “Habanero Slideshow” at the Salzburger Jazzherbst (jazz festival in Salzburg, Austria) in November 2004. The show by Rainer Rygalyk and Harry Pepl was the first to bring music of the Lonely Single Swinger Band to the stage with live musicians, in 2004. Harry Pepl (right) explains his music and his concepts to the young jazz musicians Lorenz Raab (trumpet, left), Wolfgang Schiftner (saxophone, centre) and Clemens Salesny (back). Salesny later became the central figure of the live performances of this music. Names according to the caption on the former harrypepl.com website. From left: Lorenz Raab, Wolfgang Schiftner, Clemens Salesny and Harry Pepl.
    Harry Pepl explains his music: rehearsal at the Salzburger Jazzherbst 2004Photo: Rainer Rygalyk

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  8. 19 March 2006

    JazzWerkstatt Wien: In memoriam Harry Pepl

    Vienna

    At the second festival of the JazzWerkstatt Wien at the WUK in Vienna, the evening of 19 March 2006 was dedicated to the memory of Harry Pepl and Bumi Fian, with guests such as Wolfgang Puschnig, Wolfgang Reisinger and Raphael Preuschl. The JazzWerkstatt had been founded in 2004 by, among others, Clemens Wenger, Clemens Salesny, Wolfgang Schiftner and Daniel Riegler.

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  9. 27 April 2006 to 23 July 2006

    Christian Muthspiel Trio plays Pepl and Pirchner

    Graz

    On the third evening of the GrazJazz 2006 festival (“Heimspiel”) at the Orpheum, a concert venue, in Graz (Styria, Austria), Christian Muthspiel honoured Pirchner and Pepl with his new trio featuring Franck Tortiller and Georg Breinschmid. In the summer the trio played at the Stadttheater in Gmunden (Salzkammergut Festwochen, Friday, 21 July 2006) and in the Minoritenkirche in Krems-Stein (Glatt & Verkehrt, Sunday, 23 July 2006), each time with Pirchner’s film “Der Untergang des Alpenlandes”.

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  10. 22 January 2007 to 17 June 2009

    “Against the Wind” live: prize concert and tour

    Vienna

    On Monday, 22 January 2007, Christian Muthspiel celebrated the Austrian Prize of Merit for Music 2006 at the Porgy & Bess, the city’s best-known jazz club, in Vienna with his trio and the music of Pirchner and Pepl. The programme “Against the Wind” then toured until 2009, including the Spielboden in Dornbirn (13 April 2007), the Forum Kloster in Gleisdorf (30 May 2007), the Stadttheater in Wiener Neustadt (June 2007), the Posthof in Linz (25 September 2007), Mariahof (29 September 2007), the Generalmusikdirektion in Graz (1 October 2007), the Kunsthaus in Mürzzuschlag (5 October 2007), the Oval in Salzburg (30 January 2008), the Moods jazz club in Zurich, Switzerland (31 January 2008), the Amthof in Feldkirchen in Carinthia (18 May 2008), Lunz am See (25 July 2008), Rottenmann (4 March 2009), Amstetten (5 March 2009), Lienz (21 March 2009) and the Treibhaus in Innsbruck (17 June 2009), all in Austria unless stated otherwise.

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  11. 22 November 2007 to 6 December 2007

    Wolfgang Schiftner: “FM-Syndrom, A Tribute to Harry Pepl”

    Graz

    On Thursday, 22 November 2007, the first Harry Pepl Prize winner Wolfgang Schiftner presented his Harry Pepl programme “FM-Syndrom” at the 17th Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz, Austria) at the Generalmusikdirektion in Graz; it bears the title of Pepl’s piece “FM Syndrom”. On 6 December 2007, two years after Pepl’s death, he played at the “Tribute to Harry Pepl” at the Porgy & Bess, the city’s best-known jazz club, in Vienna, where Wolfgang Mitterer also performed.

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