Chronology
Life and work year by year. Every entry is documented; we welcome additions and corrections.
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1970s
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1974
Television recording with Arik Brauer
In 1974 Pepl can be seen in an ORF television recording (ORF: Austria's public broadcaster) as a Heuriger guitarist (musician in a Viennese wine tavern) alongside the painter and singer Arik Brauer, from about the fourth minute. ORF III (the ORF's culture and information channel) showed the rare recording again; the programme's title and first broadcast date are still being researched.
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1975 to 1979
Guest on Walter Richard Langer’s ORF TV series “Bourbon Street”
Vienna
In the ORF TV series “Bourbon Street” (35 episodes, 1975 to 1979), Walter Richard Langer presents jazz styles and musicians and invites guests into the studio for live performances, among them Barney Kessel, Albert Mangelsdorff, Art Farmer, Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, and Harry Pepl. Pepl appears several times, also with the Jazzzwio.
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1980s
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29 April 1980
“Clown und Poet” on Bavarian Television
Munich
On Tuesday, 29 April 1980, Bavarian Television (BR: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bavaria's public broadcaster) aired the first episode of its new series “Heut' abend”, which later became the ARD talk show hosted by Joachim Fuchsberger: in “Clown und Poet” the clown Oleg Popov and the actor Klaus Maria Brandauer meet in front of a studio audience; Brandauer recites texts by Henry Miller, Peter Brook, William Shakespeare, Hermann Hesse, Ernst Jandl and Peter Altenberg. According to the closing credits, the music is played by a studio band with Olaf Kübler, Robert (Bob) Degen, Günter Lenz, Joe Nay and Harry Pepl; Pepl plays his old Gibson Les Paul. ARD alpha later broadcast the recording in its “retro” series.
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3 June 1983
ORF “Ohne Maulkorb”
Vienna
On Friday, 3 June 1983, the ORF (Austria's public broadcaster) youth magazine “Ohne Maulkorb” (Szene Wien), presented by Peter Resetarits, devoted a feature of its own to the Jazzzwio, with interviews with Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, and Harry Pepl. The duo played “Better Times In Sight”, “Good-bye, Baby Post” and “Air, Love & Vitamins”, along with an excerpt from the film “Der Untergang des Alpenlandes” featuring Pirchner. The description in the ORF archive notes that with the Jazzzwio the two had made “a name for themselves far beyond Austria's borders”. An excerpt was released in 2009 on the DVD “Live In Concerts”.
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21 January 1989
1990s
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December 1992
Cover of Jazzlive
Vienna
The Viennese jazz magazine Jazzlive shows Harry Pepl on the cover of its issue no. 99, photographed by the publisher Rainer Rygalyk; in the issue, Hannes Schweiger reports on the New York Knitting Factory (New York music club for jazz and the avant-garde) and Pepl's appearance there.
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April 1998
Interview in Concerto
Vienna
In the interview „Man könnte Klavierspielen müssen“ [“One might have to play the piano”] in the magazine Concerto (no. 2/1998), Pepl talks to Martin Schuster about his work, Benny Goodman, ECM (the renowned European jazz label) and the piano, above all about his solo piano album “Flow”, recorded in March 1996. The conversation took place in early 1998: Pepl already speaks of the INNtöne festival “last autumn” (December 1997), and the table of contents of the issue calls it “the comeback of Harry Pepl”.
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2000s
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15 December 2005
Ö1 “Spielräume”: “Im Gegenwind. Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl”
On Thursday, 15 December 2005, at 5.30 pm, Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) remembered Harry Pepl with Giselher Smekal in its “Spielräume” series (the title means “Against the wind. Memories of Harry Pepl”). On 6 December the 7 am Ö1 Morgenjournal had already broadcast an obituary by Wolfgang Bilek.
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September 2006
Nikolaus Kohler's diploma thesis
Vienna
At the University of Vienna, Nikolaus Kohler submitted the first detailed academic study of Pepl, supervised by Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann.
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9 December 2006
Ö1 Jazznacht with unreleased recordings
About a year after Pepl’s death, Christian Bakonyi presented him in largely unreleased recordings in the Ö1 Jazznacht (all-night jazz programme on ORF’s cultural radio station) from 11.05 pm; the studio guest was his son Daniel Pepl. The Wiener Zeitung, the Vienna daily founded in 1703, announced the broadcast on 7 and 9 December 2006 for Saturday night. A recording survives in the family on CD.
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13 March 2007
Deutschlandfunk “Milestones”
The Deutschlandfunk (Germany's national public radio station) broadcast the series “Milestones, Klassiker der Jazzgeschichte” on Harry Pepl in its late-night radio programme, with Montreux 81, the ECM (the renowned European jazz label) trio and Air Mail.
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2008
Wolfgang Schalk dedicates “And Harry Said Goodbye” to Pepl
Los Angeles
On his album “Wanted” (Frame Up Music), released in 2008 and recorded in Los Angeles, USA, with Geoffrey Keezer and Marvin “Smitty” Smith, the Styrian guitarist Wolfgang Schalk dedicates the piece “And Harry Said Goodbye” to Pepl. All About Jazz, the US online jazz magazine, reviews the album in September 2008 and singles out the ballad; on Friday, 20 February 2009, Die Presse, a Vienna daily, calls it particularly beautiful. Schalk’s Graz teacher Franz J. Posch had once drawn his attention to Pepl.
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2010s
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20 November 2014
Ö1 on the ORF Big Band
Vienna
In “Apropos Musik” on Thursday, 20 November 2014, Klaus Wienerroither portrays on Ö1 (ORF's cultural radio station) the ORF Big Band, which from 1971 to 1982 produced high-quality orchestral jazz alongside functional music, with soloists such as Art Farmer and Harry Pepl.
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19 September 2015
Ö1 Jazznacht “Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl”
Vienna
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Christian Bakonyi presented the Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel) Jazznacht on Saturday 19 September 2015, with Daniel Pepl, Agnes Heginger, Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer in the studio. An archive find of the trio with Herbert Joos and Tony Oxley from Tamsweg was also played.
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26 October 2015
Ö1 honours Pepl on the National Day
Vienna
For the Austrian National Day, Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) broadcasts the portrait „Heimat bis Du großer...“ in its “Spielräume” series, produced by Klaus Wienerroither. The title alludes to the national anthem: “In this case it really is one of the sons.” The programme spans Air Mail and the Jazzzwio, Benny Goodman and the ORF Big Band through to “Air, Love & Vitamins”.
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3 September 2016
Ö1 Jazznacht broadcasts the Pepl project from the INNtöne
Vienna
On Saturday, 3 September 2016, Christian Bakonyi's Ö1 Jazznacht broadcasts the recording from the INNtöne festival in Diersbach on 14 May 2016: Agnes Heginger, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch playing live together with recordings by Harry Pepl.
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2020s
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10 September 2020
Ö1 marks his 75th birthday
On Thursday, 10 September 2020, the day on which Pepl would have turned 75, Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) marks the occasion in the music programme “Pasticcio” and plays “Air, Love & Vitamins”. The “Spielräume Special” on Harry Pepl follows on 25 September.
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25 September 2020
Ö1 “Spielräume Special” about Harry Pepl
Vienna
For the Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel) programme, Daniel Pepl compiled a chronological list of listening examples with commentary. The date is taken from the file name of the list.
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10 December 2021
Ö1 remembers the ORF Big Band
Vienna
For the 50th anniversary of the founding of the ORF Big Band, Ines Reiger and Klaus Wienerroither present a “Spielräume Nachtausgabe” on Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) on Friday, 10 December 2021. The programme text names Pepl alongside Fritz Pauer and Erich Bachträgl among the important Austrian musicians who complemented the orchestra’s international quality „kongenial“ [“congenially”].
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15 December 2023
Ö1 Jazztime with Stefan Heckel
Vienna
At the RadioCafe of the Vienna RadioKulturhaus, Stefan Heckel presents his solo piano album live on Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) on Friday, 15 December 2023, and talks with Johann Kneihs about his research into the method of instant composing, which ORF Teletext announces as that of the „großen Jazzgitarristen Harry Pepl“ [“great jazz guitarist Harry Pepl”].
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July 2024
Stefan Heckel's dissertation “Instant Composing”
Vienna
Stefan Heckel submitted his dissertation on Pepl's late work at the mdw (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) in Vienna, Austria, supervised by Harald Huber.
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6 September 2025
Ö1 Jazznacht for the 80th birthday
Vienna
Christian Bakonyi presented the Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel) Jazznacht for the 80th birthday on Saturday 6 September 2025, with Daniel Pepl, Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer.
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26 October 2025
Death of Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette dies on Sunday, 26 October 2025, aged 83, in Woodstock (New York, USA). The APA report on his death states on Monday, 27 October, that Pepl was the only Austrian musician to record three albums with him in the 1980s; the Salzburger Nachrichten, a Salzburg daily, recall the recordings on ECM (the renowned European jazz label) with Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, and Pepl.
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24 June 2026
Ö1 Radiosession with Michael Kahr and Martin Harms
Vienna
In the relaunched “Ö1 Radiosession”, Klaus Wienerroither talks on Wednesday, 24 June 2026, with the pianist Michael Kahr and the saxophonist Martin Harms; their duo project “Jazz & the City” is devoted to figures of jazz in Vienna, expressly including Harry Pepl. Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) had announced the duo on 27 May 2026 among the first guests of the series, with repertoire „von Anton Karas bis Harry Pepl“ [“from Anton Karas to Harry Pepl”].
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