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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

double bass

Josef Pitzek

In 1988 he asked Pepl by telephone for a piece for the Ensemble Wien; “Ballade for Mr. Dinozo” came out of it. Soloist in “Pizzicat”.

Plays his music

Double bassist in the Ensemble Wien and soloist with the Ensemble Kontrapunkte; his name provided the model for the title “Pizzicat”.

More about Josef Pitzek: die-wiener.at

Voices

He was still searching for something.

The double bassist on Pepl in the ORF Big Band, the big band of Austria’s public broadcaster, in the 1970s, who practised quietly and “like a man possessed”, although the big band work did not require it

Josef Pitzek Heckel 2024, p. 215 (interview with Josef Pitzek, 19 January 2015); translated from the German

In the chronology