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GERHARD CREPAZ
\n08.08.1945 – 24.11.2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden death of my husband, our father and grandfather Gerhard Crepaz.<\/p>\n

As a pioneer in many areas of the performing arts, Gerhard Crepaz \u2013 together with his wife Maria \u2013 have had a formative influence on Austrian cultural life, above all as the artistic director of the Galerie St. Barbara, which he led to international prominence.<\/p>\n

He was admired by many and feared by some for his uncompromising devotion to art and for his unconventional manner of communicating it. Gerhard Crepaz was a great enthusiast for the arts. In keeping with John Cage\u2019s motto \u201cHappy New Ears\u201d, he worked tirelessly to whet people\u2019s appetites for the unheard and unseen \u2013 whether as a music teacher, journalist, cultural mediator or artistic director of prestigious events and festivals.<\/p>\n

As a journalist, Gerhard Crepaz worked for the ORF, RAI Bozen, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Deutschlandfunk, and the newspapers, \u00a0Tiroler Tageszeitung, Salzburger Nachrichten, Der Standard and various international journals. He created numerous programmes for \u00d61 the classical music channel of the ORF: \u201cMusik h\u00f6ren \u2013 Musik verstehen\u201d, \u201c\u00d6sterreichische Musikgalerie\u201d and the series \u201cWege zur Neuen Musik\u201d, which were broadcast with great success and instilled enthusiasm for contemporary music in several generations. In 1974, he supported the composer Joseph Anton Riedl in establishing the Kulturforum Bonn Center.<\/p>\n

As well as all these activities, the \u201ccultural animator\u201d \u2013 as he jokingly called himself \u2013 worked tirelessly to transform the province of Tyrol into a land of culture and vision. For him, an open mind was not a question of such distinctions as province or big city.<\/p>\n

Such contemporary greats of composition – Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich, Cornelius Cardew, Dieter Schnebel, Klaus Huber, Terry Riley and John Cage came to Hall on the initiative of Gerhard Crepaz. Big names of today were invited to make their Austrian debut in the small medieval town as completely unknown young artists, including the Alban Berg Quartet, Hesp\u00e8rion XX with Hopkinson Smith, Larry Alpert, Montserrat Figueras and Jordi Savall, as well as Il Giardino Armonico. As a result, Hall became the \u201csecret cultural capital of Tyrol\u201d, \u00a0as Max Weiler put it.<\/p>\n

Generations of young enthusiasts for the arts have been influenced by his work and encouraged to pursue their own artistic endeavours. As a programme maker and organiser, he was an early advocate of encounters between cultures, with formats such as the \u201cRandfeste\u201d (Fringe Festivals, 1972, 1974) and with the founding of \u201cMusik der Religionen\u201d (Music of the Religions), now the \u201cOsterfestival Tirol\u201d (Tyrol Easter Festival) in 1989. From 1992 to 1995 Gerhard Crepaz initiated the first contemporary dance festival in Tyrol in the form of \u201cTanz.Theater.Tanz\u201d. He was also committed to collaborations among local cultural initiatives \u2013 among other things, as co-founder of the Tiroler Kulturinitiativen \/ TKI and as a friend and mentor to many creative artists. Gerhard Crepaz was convinced of the power of the utopia of art. He was a man who made the world a better place.<\/p>\n

His pioneering work in Tyrol often involved a struggle against resistance, but his work also finally met with official recognition: he was awarded the title of professor by the Austrian Federal President, the Austrian Art Prize for Music (together with Maria Crepaz), an honorary fellowship of the Leopold Francis University of Innsbruck, and the Medal of Honour of the City of Hall.<\/p>\n

His razor-sharp observations, his almost childlike joy in and with his fellow human beings, his radiance, his imagination, his passion and his vital presence in music and in his family \u2013 these are among the things we will miss.<\/p>\n

Maria, Christoph, Hannah, Lukas and Sarah with their families<\/p>\n

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From Friday, 3rd December (from 5 p.m.) to Sunday evening, 5th December, there will be an opportunity to say goodbye in the chapel of interment at Hall Cemetery.<\/p>\n

The date for the memorial service and urn interment will be announced at a later date due to the current lockdown.<\/p>\n

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