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| Collection | Entry | Year | Identifier | Open and work with |
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| Quotation | „3 Mo stands for mothy, momenty, minory. Mothy because the music sounds as if the moths are waiting to pounce.“Harry Pepl · On his piano piece “3 Mo”, quoted by Georg Pepl in the liner notes to “Flow” (PAO Records CD 10140-2, 1996), English version by Stephen Ferguson in the booklet | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „For it was in Kufstein, exactly 20 years ago, that he also gave his first concert as a vibraphonist with the JazzZwio, together with Harry …“Tiroler Tageszeitung, culture section, 25 April 1996; translated from the German | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „For me, art is not a game but the last place of transcendence.“Harry Pepl · Own statement 1996, quoted in Günther 1997, p. 824 (also given as “Bernhard 1997” in Kohler 2006), and in Kohler 2006, p. 135 | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „Genre boundaries and purity of style matter very little to me. Nevertheless, the core of my aesthetics is not postmodern. For me art is not …“Harry Pepl · Harry Pepl 1996, quoted in Bernhard 1997, p. 824, and Kohler 2006, p. 135 | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry Pepl is a musician who hears. He has that seldom gift–to immediately translate what he hears into music coming from his own fingers …“Stephen Ferguson · Liner notes to “Flow” (Harry Pepl, piano; PAO Records CD 10140-2, 1996) | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry Pepl’s “Exzentrik - Egometrik” will receive its premiere.“Der Standard, 18 October 1996; translated from the German | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „has come to the fore since 1984 as a composer of European contemporary art music“Information sheet (press material, 5 pages), 1996, p. 3 | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „he is simply unafraid of any musical task, and has the jazz man’s joy of real time composition.“Stephen Ferguson · Liner notes to “Flow” (Harry Pepl, piano; PAO Records CD 10140-2, 1996) | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „his very own instrument–the guitar–where he is one of Europe’s undisputed jazz masters“Stephen Ferguson · Liner notes to “Flow” (Harry Pepl, piano; PAO Records CD 10140-2, 1996) | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „I believe in the absolute: in the truth in which all opposites coincide.“Harry Pepl · Own statement 1996, quoted in Günther 1997, p. 824 (also given as “Bernhard 1997” in Kohler 2006), and in Kohler 2006, p. 135 | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „It is a dream played awake, full of snatches of music, gestures, spaces.“Stephen Ferguson · Liner notes to “Flow” (Harry Pepl, piano; PAO Records CD 10140-2, 1996), on Pepl’s twelve pieces at the piano | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „Just looking at the titles of his pieces one recognises that Pepl is a deeply musical and romantic artist. Musically his playing is related …“Georg Pepl · Liner notes to “Flow” (Harry Pepl, piano; PAO Records CD 10140-2, 1996), English version by Stephen Ferguson in the booklet | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „Let us simply enjoy the novelty and richness of this master of the strings becoming a novice at the keyboard, a masterly novice full of …“Stephen Ferguson · Liner notes to “Flow” (Harry Pepl, piano; PAO Records CD 10140-2, 1996), closing lines | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „Richly coloured, electronically supported expression with an enormous range“Kronen Zeitung, 26 February 1996, p. 16; translated from the German | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „The improvising pianist flows out into the world of tones, the piano player melts into oneness with the piano, desists in his identity as a …“Georg Pepl · Liner notes to “Flow” (Harry Pepl, piano; PAO Records CD 10140-2, 1996), English version by Stephen Ferguson in the booklet | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „this introduction also contained a shock for guitarist Harry Pepl as Benny announces a guitar solo“Tony Middleton · Liner notes to Benny Goodman, “Berlin 1980” (TCB Records, 1996), on Goodman's unannounced call for a guitar solo at the Berlin Philharmonie, 7 and 8 November 1980, which gave rise to “Harry Pepl's Blues”; quoted from Kohler 2006, p. 54 | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „What do I listen to at Christmas? Well, Silent Night!“Harry Pepl · Survey by Christian Rösner, Wiener Zeitung, Tuesday, 24 December 1996, p. 4 | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „While playing the piano Harry Pepl enjoys being able to elevate himself to the mood of the moment, or to plunge into a different sense of …“Georg Pepl · Liner notes to “Flow” (Harry Pepl, piano; PAO Records CD 10140-2, 1996), English version by Stephen Ferguson in the booklet | 1996 | ||
| Quotation | „After that Harry Pepl played, first on piano, then on drums, while Franz Hackl stayed with his trumpet.“Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt, 10 December 1997, p. 28; translated from the German | 1997 | ||
| Quotation | „Alongside Harry Pepl and Wolfgang Muthspiel, a generation younger, Ratzer is probably the most important Austrian guitar voice“Der Sinti-Jazz (Hg. Anita Awosusi) · Anita Awosusi (ed.): Der Sinti-Jazz, Heidelberg, Germany, 1997, p. 137; translated from the German | 1997 | ||
| Quotation | „As a string player he created fabulous special moments with Michel Portal, who phrased with a keen sense of sound on bass clarinet and …“Robert Urmann · INNtöne festival at Zell an der Pram Castle; OÖ Nachrichten, Tuesday, 9 December 1997 | 1997 | ||
| Quotation | „let it be said straight away, Pepl does not play guitar but piano“Wiener Zeitung, “Jazzignal” column, 11 November 1997, p. 4; translated from the German | 1997 | ||
| Quotation | „The piano and drum playing of the guitarist Harry Pepl attracted attention.“OÖ Nachrichten, culture section, 9 December 1997; translated from the German | 1997 | ||
| Quotation | „Their joy in playing carried over seamlessly to the audience.“Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt, 10 December 1997, p. 28; translated from the German | 1997 | ||
| Quotation | „Trumpeter Franz Hackl soulfully accentuated Harry Pepl’s piano impressions“Kronen Zeitung, 10 December 1997, p. 28; translated from the German | 1997 | ||
| Quotation | „Exploring the limits was obviously always his endeavour.“Kulturpreis Niederösterreich (state database of prizewinners), 1998, p. 1 | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „For me music means emotions and memories. And even when I play something I don’t much like, my blood pressure goes up, because then it gets …“Harry Pepl · Conversation with Martin Schuster, “Man könnte Klavierspielen müssen”, Concerto 2/1998; quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 129; translated from the German | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „He did a great deal for me rhythmically. What Mick Goodrick means in my case for the voicings, the accompaniment, Harry Pepl means for the …“Wolfgang Muthspiel · Lothar Trampert, Gitarre & Bass 7/1998, p. 54 ff., reprinted in Martin Schaberl, master’s thesis (Magisterarbeit, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz), 2004, p. 201; translated from the German | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „I am a man of contrasts, often very funny or ironic and then very sad again. You can probably hear that in my playing too“Harry Pepl · Conversation with Martin Schuster, “Man könnte Klavierspielen müssen”, Concerto 2/1998; translated from the German | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „I feel committed to musical truthfulness“Harry Pepl · Portrait on the Lower Austrian Culture Prize, “Auszeichnung für den musikalischen Jazz-Grenzgänger Harry Pepl” (initials “flo”), Kurier, Tuesday 3 November 1998, p. 10; translated from the German | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „I played one note, then the second, and by the third at the latest Jack knew exactly where I was, and we were together.“Harry Pepl · On an unprepared festival concert with Jack DeJohnette; interview with Christian Rösner, Wiener Zeitung, Tuesday, 10 February 1998, p. 4 | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „I wanted you to be able to hear the room on the CD as well.“Harry Pepl · Concerto (music magazine), issue 2/1998, April 1998, p. 2 of 4 (version in Presseberichte (1)) | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „Music is my life, and I cannot not play“Harry Pepl · Conversation with Christian Rösner, “Echtzeitkompositionen”, Wiener Zeitung, Tuesday 10 February 1998, p. 4; translated from the German | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „Music: Harry Pepl (prize of honour), Friedrich Keil and Elisabeth Schimana (recognition prizes)“Das Waldviertel, volume 47, issue 4 (page 408), December 1998, p. 408 | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „Music: Harry Pepl (Würdigungspreis, prize of honour)“OTS (original text service of the APA), Lower Austrian State Press Service, 8 September 1998; translated from the German | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „My main problem is my high blood pressure. Another contradiction: on the outside I may seem calm, but inside it races around in me like mad.“Harry Pepl · Conversation with Martin Schuster, “Man könnte Klavierspielen müssen”, Concerto 2/1998; also quoted in the Kleine Zeitung, Tuesday 6 December 2005, p. 55; translated from the German | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „Pepl’s flowing real-time compositions on “Flow” are in any case full of energy and honesty; understandable in expression and eloquent.“Christian Rösner · Review of the CD “Flow”; “Echtzeitkompositionen”, Wiener Zeitung, Tuesday 10 February 1998, p. 4; translated from the German | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „The 53-year-old guitarist and pianist of world renown from Hernstein captivates jazz lovers with extraordinary, spontaneous and innovative …“Kurier (Kürzel flo) · “Auszeichnung für den musikalischen Jazz-Grenzgänger Harry Pepl”, Kurier, 3 November 1998, p. 10 | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „The guitarist and composer Harry Pepl may well be called Austria’s most independent and at the same time most uncompromising jazz voice.“Christian Rösner · Wiener Zeitung, Tuesday, 10 February 1998, p. 4 | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „The music prizewinners are represented by Harry Pepl, who performs “Tintenfishinky”“OTS (original text service of the APA), Lower Austrian State Press Service, 30 September 1998; translated from the German | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „What mattered to me was to play music that really comes from within and that happens in the moment“Harry Pepl · On real-time composing at the piano; interview with Christian Rösner, Wiener Zeitung, Tuesday, 10 February 1998, p. 4 | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „What matters is finding your own individual line, and for that it is practise, practise, practise“Harry Pepl · Kurier (page 10, Chronik section, “Landsleute” column), 3 November 1998, p. 10 (Pepl) | 1998 | ||
| Quotation | „from 1992 to 1997 he was taught by Harry Pepl in the jazz department of the Graz University of Music“Wiener Zeitung, Extra section, 30 July 1999, p. 915; translated from the German | 1999 | ||
| Quotation | „No idea what would have become of me if I hadn’t met Harry.“Martin Siewert · On his studies with Pepl in Graz; portrait by Klaus Taschwer, Falter, Wednesday, 25 August 1999, p. 53 | 1999 | ||
| Quotation | „The main point is that you can bring music to life, no matter what style.“Harry Pepl · Interview with Christian Haudej, 1999, p. 19, quoted in Heckel 2024, p. 86 | 1999 | ||
| Quotation | „a brilliant, atmospherically dense, wildly grooving “Zeitraffer” by Harry Pepl“Andreas Fellinger, Neue Zeit, 26 November 2000, p. 38; translated from the German | 2000 | ||
| Quotation | „A play with waves and tides, in the pull of the speed of the moment“Harry Pepl · On “Zeitraffer” (Pepl’s own words), quoted by Ewald Baringer, NÖN, 5 April 2000, p. 18; translated from the German | 2000 | ||
| Quotation | „A truly brilliant stroke by the legendary guitarist and composer.“Ewald Baringer, NÖN · Ewald Baringer, review of the premiere of “Zeitraffer”, NÖN (Lower Austrian newspaper), 5 April 2000, p. 18; translated from the German | 2000 | ||
| Quotation | „Art has the task not merely to negate the tendencies of the time, but also to sharpen them.“Harry Pepl · Programme note on “Zeitraffer”, concert “Einkreisung”, Sammlung Essl, Schömer-Haus Klosterneuburg, 1 April 2000 | 2000 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry Pepl’s brilliant, atmospherically dense, wildly grooving “Zeitraffer”“Andreas Fellinger · On the performance of “Zeitraffer” at Forum Stadtpark Graz; “Die Moderne in der Perkussion”, Neue Zeit, Sunday 26 November 2000, p. 38; translated from the German | 2000 |
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