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| Quotation | „created a furore internationally between Berlin and Montreux with a subtle and intense form of chamber music“Ljubiša Tošić, Der Standard · Obituary “Harry Pepl 1945 - 2005”, Der Standard, 6 December 2005, p. 25 (date and page according to Heckel 2024, n. 26); on the duo with Werner Pirchner | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Despite his international reputation he always remained committed and loyal to regional jazz festivals in Upper Austria (such as Raab).“OÖ Nachrichten, 6 December 2005, p. 22; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Divinely gifted guitarist and an exceptional phenomenon“Otto Kolleritsch · Quoted in the obituary by Peter Paul Skrepek, Musikergilde, 19 December 2005 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „gifted guitarist“Otto Kolleritsch · Otto Kolleritsch, rector of the Graz Academy of Music, to the APA (Austria Presse Agentur), 5 December 2005; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry Pepl shaped a jazz idiom which, in its uncompromising direction and its phrasing in waves over a steady pulse, can be called European.“NÖN · NÖN, 12 December 2005, p. 38; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „he had long been regarded as one of the most independent and creative guitarists on the European jazz scene“Salzburger Nachrichten · Obituary in the “Gestorben” column, Salzburger Nachrichten, 7 December 2005, p. 14; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „He searched passionately: for truthfulness, a utopia in which all opposites coincide.“Samir H. Köck (Kürzel „sam“) · Obituary “Er musste spielen”, Die Presse, Wednesday 7 December 2005, p. 34; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „He shaped a playing style which, with expansive arcs of tension, unexpected harmonic progressions and clear, at times metallic sounds …“Ralf Dombrowski · Obituary “Verstummte Saiten”, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wednesday 7 December 2005, p. 17; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „He shaped and influenced Austrian jazz, nationally and internationally, like hardly anyone else.“NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten · Obituary “Tiefe Trauer um Harry”, NÖN (Lower Austrian newspaper), Triesting valley edition, 12 December 2005, p. 38; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „He was a guitarist known far beyond Austria“Der Standard (online, APA report), 5 December 2005, p. 1 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „He was one of the best guitarists of our time and was often called a “giant of improvisation” (in Le Monde, among others)“OÖ Nachrichten · Obituary “Jazzer Harry Pepl gestorben”, OÖ Nachrichten, 6 December 2005, p. 22; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „He was the one who gave me that first push into it, and for me it was really the first impulse to free myself like that.“Harry Pepl · On the duo with Lee Konitz around 1975; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 1-24), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 30 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „I am often very cheerful and then very sad again. You can probably hear that in my playing too“Harry Pepl · Quoted in Michael Tschida’s obituary, Kleine Zeitung, 6 December 2005, p. 55; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „I believe I was pretty much the first in Austria to use a guitar synthesiser.“Harry Pepl · Conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 4-58), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 121 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „I decided to teach and to play only real jazz from then on, and to leave commercial work and the studio as a job behind me.“Harry Pepl · Conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 1-19), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 29 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „I do not have the music in my head like that; it is really a flow with nothing in between.“Harry Pepl · On the piano album “Flow”; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 1-65), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 131 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „I do not just play over the harmony, but something really happens that surprises even me, harmonically too.“Harry Pepl · On his improvising; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 2-51), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 121 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „I have so many recordings, but that’s fine anyway; how did that guy put it: should I just mow the lawn? Then again, it’s also crazy …“Harry Pepl · On the recordings in his home studio; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 1-73), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 134 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „In 1975, together with the guitarist Harry Pepl, he founded the JazzZwio (Gegenwind), whose tours helped to anchor Austrian jazz …“Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) · MGG, 2nd edition, biographical part, article “Pirchner, Werner”, col. 617; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „In dialogue the two took the small chamber-jazz form to a previously unimagined communicative intensity.“Ralf Dombrowski · Ralf Dombrowski, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 7 December 2005, p. 17; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „In the seventies there was hardly a faster jazz guitarist in Europe than the Austrian Harry Pepl.“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung · Obituary “Schnelle Finger” (initials wws.), FAZ no. 286, 8 December 2005, p. 39 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „In the “Zwio” with the composer and vibraphonist Werner Pirchner he disregarded musical conventions from the 1970s on and played originally …“Salzburger Nachrichten · On the Jazzzwio; obituary in the column “Gestorben”, Salzburger Nachrichten, Wednesday 7 December 2005, p. 14; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „It is a really sweet song with a sweet, simple melody that actually calls for a voice or a saxophone, something that comes along in long …“Harry Pepl · On “Air, Love and Vitamines”; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 4-44), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 82 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Now that I can play everything I want, I’m no longer allowed to.“Harry Pepl · Harry Pepl, quoted by Peter Paul Skrepek, Musikergilde, 19 December 2005 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „one of Austria's most original jazz guitarists“organissimo (jazz forum, online), 9 December 2005 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „One of Europe’s leading jazz guitarists“neue musikzeitung, nach ORF · News item “Jazz-Gitarrist Harry Pepl gestorben”, Kulturinformationszentrum des Deutschen Kulturrates / neue musikzeitung (nmz-red/leipzig, source: orf.at), December 2005 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „one of the defining instrumentalists of the European jazz scene“JazzEcho · Obituary “Ade Harry Pepl!”, JazzEcho (Universal Classics), 7 December 2005 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „one of the most stimulating stylists on both the acoustic and the electric instrument“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung · Obituary “Schnelle Finger” (initials wws.), FAZ no. 286, 8 December 2005, p. 39 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „over the years he developed a complex musical style that worked with highly expressive, very individual polytonal melody and unfolded …“Ljubiša Tošić · Obituary “Harry Pepl 1945 - 2005”, Der Standard, Tuesday 6 December 2005, p. 25; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Pepl was regarded as a musical border-crosser whose music impressed with its vitality, density and emotion.“APA · APA (Austria Presse Agentur), 5 December 2005; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „played with clichés of home in an original and sly way“Salzburger Nachrichten, 7 December 2005, p. 14; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „quickly played his way up into the first league of European guitarists“Kurier · Obituary “Harry Pepl gestorben”, Kurier, 6 December 2005, p. 31; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „shaped by the old jazz dream of wresting from the moment a musical substance that creates something lasting and thus comes close to …“Ljubiša Tošić · On real-time composing; obituary “Harry Pepl 1945 - 2005”, Der Standard, Tuesday 6 December 2005, p. 25; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „So I didn't know a single tune, and Benny didn't give us a programme or anything.“Harry Pepl · On the concerts with Benny Goodman in Berlin in 1980; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (interview 2-7), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 53; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Some notes come to me that fit together especially well, somebody in the audience shouts, and then I am completely in the zone.“Harry Pepl · On the concert in Montreux on 12 July 1981; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 1-33), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 77 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Somehow I played like Charlie Christian’s grandfather, so even older.“Harry Pepl · On the concert with Benny Goodman; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 2-14), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 61 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Students such as Wolfgang Muthspiel still count him among the most important driving forces in recent European jazz history.“Ralf Dombrowski, Süddeutsche Zeitung · Obituary “Verstummte Saiten”, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 7 December 2005, p. 17; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Teaching was very good for me. Through constantly demonstrating things, I was always thinking for myself about what else one could do …“Harry Pepl · On his teaching in Graz; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 3-52), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 139 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „Thank God I kept moving away from the things I listened to, otherwise I would probably still be playing like Wes Montgomery.“Harry Pepl · Conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 3-31), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 39 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „That was simply the Jazzzwio plus somebody else. With Dave Holland, though, it would have been completely different music.“Harry Pepl · On the ECM album of 1983; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 3-22), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 81 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „The atmosphere was incredible when the rushing sound of the rain suddenly set in.“Harry Pepl · On the premiere of the string quartet “Über Kurz oder Lang” on 6 May 1993; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 2-52), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 122 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „The comic in jazz was never more serious.“Michael Tschida · On the Jazzzwio; obituary “Auch die 2. Hälfte vom ‚Jazzzwio‘ ist nicht mehr”, Kleine Zeitung, Tuesday 6 December 2005, p. 55; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „The guitarist Harry Pepl was one of those musicians who shaped and influenced Austrian jazz at home and abroad.“neue musikzeitung, nach ORF · News item “Jazz-Gitarrist Harry Pepl gestorben”, Kulturinformationszentrum des Deutschen Kulturrates / neue musikzeitung (nmz-red/leipzig, source: orf.at), December 2005 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „The guitarist Harry Pepl was one of those musicians who shaped and influenced Austrian jazz at home and abroad.“News item “Jazz-Gitarrist Harry Pepl gestorben”, Kulturinformationszentrum des Deutschen Kulturrates / neue musikzeitung (nmz-red/leipzig, source: orf.at), December 2005 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „The only thing essential for the synthesis of the temporal and the timeless to succeed is the fulfilled moment!“Harry Pepl · On real-time composing; quoted in the obituary “Tiefe Trauer um Harry”, NÖN, 12 December 2005, p. 38; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „The virtuoso, who seemed so introverted on the outside, was bubbling away inside when he played.“Die Presse (page 34, feuilleton), 7 December 2005, p. 34 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „was, in his active phase, one of the most important guitarists in the world“Ljubiša Tošić, Der Standard · Obituary “Harry Pepl 1945 - 2005”, Der Standard, 6 December 2005, p. 25 (date and page according to Heckel 2024, n. 26) | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „We played “Stella by Starlight” and noticed straight away: that’s it, we can play well together. That is really how it started with the …“Harry Pepl · On the first duo rehearsal with Werner Pirchner in 1975; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 1-20), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 71 | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „We were both equally crazy and liked trying out funny things.“Harry Pepl · On the Jazzzwio with Werner Pirchner; quoted in Michael Tschida’s obituary, Kleine Zeitung, 6 December 2005, p. 55; translated from the German | 2005 | ||
| Quotation | „When playing, I want the harmonies and the rhythm to be changed spontaneously through improvising.“Harry Pepl · On “Halley's Comet, Light Blue Blues”; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 4-26), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 95 | 2005 |
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