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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

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What was written and broadcast about Harry Pepl: reviews, portraits, interviews and obituaries, with summary and source. The originals are protected by copyright and kept in the archive; we provide them to researchers and the press on request.

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  1. 12 July 2017 · Interview · DE

    Kronen Zeitung (Styria): „Meine Stücke sind wie Räume“

    Matthias Wagner

    Interview with Wolfgang Muthspiel ahead of his concert at the Judenburger Sommer festival. The Kronen Zeitung recalls that he was admitted to the music academy in Graz at 15, first studying classical guitar with Leo Witoszynskyj, then jazz with Harry Pepl as well.

    first classical guitar with Leo Witoszynskyj, then jazz with Harry Pepl as well

  2. 20 May 2016 · Interview · DE

    Kleine Zeitung: „Der jazzverwandte Kosmopolit“

    Otmar Klammer

    Interview with Wolfgang Puschnig on his 60th birthday. Asked about the most lasting influence, he names Harry Pepl first, with whom he played for seven years in Air Mail; his planned double CD of duos also gathers recordings with friends who are no longer alive, such as Pepl and Hans Koller.

    Harry Pepl, definitely, with whom I played in the Airmail band for seven years.

    Wolfgang Puschnig

  3. 19 May 2016 · Interview · DE

    Die Presse (Online): „Kärntner Jazzer mit langem Atem“

    Samir H. Köck

    Interview with Wolfgang Puschnig on his 60th birthday. Puschnig names the seven years with Airmail, Harry Pepl’s band, as one of the highlights of his career; Pepl is only a side topic of the conversation.

    the seven years with Airmail, the band of the guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005

    As a guitarist he was outside every norm. That opened up a new, more flexible approach to phrasing for me.

    Wolfgang Puschnig

  4. 4 July 2015 · Interview · DE

    Die Presse (Zeichen der Zeit): Gespräch mit Peter Havlicek

    DP

    Conversation with the contraguitarist and composer Peter Havlicek, co-founder of the Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln. He tells how he came to the contraguitar during his guitar studies with Harry Pepl in Graz; the box “Zur Person” names his studies with Pepl explicitly.

    Later, it was already during my guitar studies with Harry Pepl in Graz, a theatre group was looking for a contraguitarist.

    Peter Havlicek

  5. 13 October 2011 · Interview · DE

    OÖ Nachrichten (Rieder Volkszeitung): „Ich werde versuchen, noch viel tiefer in die Musik einzutauchen“

    Bianka Eichinger

    Interview with the Innviertel trombonist Paul Zauner, organiser of the INNtöne festival. Asked about the most impressive musician he has ever worked with, he names Harry Pepl second.