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WILHELM KEMPFF DISCOGRAPHY, By Frank Forman Wilhelm Kempff (born 1895 November 25 in J terborg, near Berlin; The Quiet Pianist. We often call opposite things which are very much alike. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
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Extractions: Munich - The famous pianist Wilhelm Kempff has died at the age of 95 in Positano, Italy. The city government announced the death of the piano virtuoso on Friday, May 24, 1991. Kempff still performed at the age of 80 with his friend Leonard Bernstein in New York City. The friendship between the two has developed after the Second World War. Bernstein praised the German: "He is one of the most interesting personalities I ever met in my life." After 1945 Kempff lived in Ammerland near Munich. His adopted home became the Italian town Positano near Naples, where he suffered a stroke. Kempff was a pianist with an unmistakable, unique touch. His interpretations of piano works of the classic and romantic styles were always stamped with a highly personal style. With the pianist Cortot, also Kempff played at the opening of a great art exhibition of his friend Arno Breker in the Orangerie in Paris in 1942 in front of an international audience. Kempff is immortalized in a magnificent bronze bust by Breker. Kempff grew up in Potsdam, studied music in Berlin and received there a thorough education as a pianist. Already in the 20's he began with an extensive touring activity which took him around the world. He performed in Japan as well as in South America and in the United States. To his friends belonged Eugen d'Albert, Georg Kulenkampff, Edwin Fischer and the legendary pianistin Elly Ney. Together with Roger Peyrefitte, Ernst Fuchs, Ronald Reagan, Dr. Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Salvador Dali and other personalities, also Kempff belonged to the Order of Alexander the Great for Science and Art.
Wilhelm Kempff - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia wilhelm kempff (November 25, 1895 May 23, 1991) was a German pianist and composer . Considered one of the greatest pianists of 20th century, kempff is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Kempff
Extractions: Wilhelm Kempff November 25 May 23 ) was a German pianist and composer Kempff was born in J¼terbog Germany and studied in Berlin and Potsdam . He toured widely throughout contintental Europe and much of the rest of the world, but did not make his first London appearance until 1951, and did not play in New York until 1964. He died in Positano Italy Considered one of the greatest pianists of 20th century, Kempff is celebrated today for his recordings of Schumann Brahms Schubert Mozart ... Chopin and particularly, of Ludwig van Beethoven . He recorded over a period of some sixty years. Kempff was among the first to record the complete Sonatas of Franz Schubert long before these works became popular. He also recorded two celebrated sets of the complete Beethoven sonatas , one in mono and the other in early stereo. Kempff also played chamber music with Yehudi Menuhin and Pierre Fournier among others. Particularly famous are the recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano with Menuhin. A lesser known activity of Kempff was also composing. He composed for almost every genre. His second symphony was premiered in 1929 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus by
MUSIC Wilhelm Kempff And Ataturk of Ataturk and the German/Prussian concert pianist wilhelm kempff. kempff (18951991) was a brilliant pianist was never a party member of the http://wais.stanford.edu/Music/music_WilhelmKempffAtaturk(0125
Extractions: Back to Index Christopher Jones writes: "In our discussion of music and noise, I forgot to mention the example of Ataturk and the German/Prussian concert pianist Wilhelm Kempff. In 1927, Kempff visited Ankara and was introduced to Mustapha Kemal who underscored to Kempff the importance of his reforms to create a modern Turkish state on the ashes of the old Ottoman empire. Ataturk told Kempff that every great movement in human history has to be accompanied by music if it is to succeed. Kempff, who was probably the greatest living expert in the music of L.v. Beethoven, said that real music is polyphonic and advised Ataturk on the right music to accompany the foundation of the Turkish republic. Kempff (1895-1991) was a brilliant pianist was never a party member of the National Socialists". RH:
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WILHELM KEMPFF DISCOGRAPHY, By Frank Forman And wilhelm kempff and wilhelm Backhaus are two German pianists whose differencesvery much To this I should add that the pianist also joins in quietly, http://www.trovar.com/Kempff.html
Extractions: by Frank Forman Version 2, 1995 May 27. Version 1 was 1990 November. We often call opposite things which are very much alike. Thus both Protestants and Catholics are Christians and both liberalism and conservatism are Western political philosophies. And Wilhelm Kempff and Wilhelm Backhaus are two German pianists whose differences very much complement each other. Backhaus' playing can be characterized as a masculine carving of solid granite. Yet within this huge, rugged framework, Backhaus is a subtle interpreter. He plays, it might be said, from the outside in. You might say he is the loudest of pianists, even in the quietest passages, because he plays with the most authority. Kempff is the opposite, or as it might be better put, the complement of Backhaus in German piano playing. With Kempff, it is not the loudness but the quiet that one hears. There is a *suspended* *tension*, a calm, and a holding back between each note and the next. Under Backhaus' playing there is a feeling of inevitable movement; with Kempff's an unfolding. He plays, as it were, from the inside out. The best example of this is the beginning of the last movement of the Waldstein Sonata of Beethoven (especially the 1951-2 monophonic LP recording). The pensive second movement has just ended, and what will become the stormy finale is quietly beginning. The volume and speed gradually pick up; but, no, Beethoven hesitates and begins quietly again again, before moving up and down still more until the work's triumphant end. Kempff keeps us suspended throughout, no matter how well we think we know the music. This is a supreme instance of his use of silence: the spaces between the notes count as much as the notes themselves.
"Fanfare" Interview Famed pianist wilhelm kempff died May 23 1991 at the age of 95. For many yearshe invited pianists to his home in Positano, Italy for a series of summer http://www.madeleineforte.com/Kempff.html
Extractions: Famed pianist Wilhelm Kempff died May 23 [1991] at the age of 95. For many years he invited pianists to his home in Positano, Italy for a series of summer master classes devoted to Beethoven. Madeleine Hsu [Forte] participated in the 1963 session; her diary of that summer, translated by Christina Petrowsky, appeared in the January 1970 issue of Clavier and is reprinted here with minor corrections. In a deep and musical voice, the captain of the vaporetto announces to the passengers their arrival in paradise. The dream is over, surpassed by reality. A few meters from the shore, the vaporetto deposits us and our luggage into a small boat; the savage beauty of the Italian village is encrusted jealously between two rocks. Positano rises to a peak, all pink, yellow, green, and white, especially toward the western part of the beach. To the east, toward Amalfi, live the shepherds. A few villas are nestled there in solitude, among them Casa Virgilio and Casa Orfeo, domains of Wilhelm Kempff. He lives there for a portion of the summer with his family. I won't disturb his rest today; I'll wait until the first class. Zagoruiko met him here five or six years ago. I have an advantage over him: I was 12 years old when I met him, with emotion, for the first time. The morning after his recital I had to take my last exam in natural science. I was living in a village then, and after traveling all night, protozoa and other microcosmic inhabitants were far from my mind as I struggled before my blank sheet, against sleep and memory of Kempff's subtle harmonies.
Extractions: Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 Beauty of tone, clarity of texture, and graceful phrasing were the hallmarks of his playing, and they are much in evidence in the recordings gathered here. As in volume I and volume II of the Great Pianists series devoted to Kempff's artistry, the selection of repertoire for this two-CD set was made by Alfred Brendel, and it shows Kempff for the most part in splendid form. The Mozart concerto is vibrantly played, the two Beethoven sonatas and rondo dispatched with energy and the kind of spiritual elation that comes only from a deep affinity with the music. There is evidence aplenty of Kempff's extraordinary earas in the opening solo passage of the Mozart concerto, when he corrects for a slightly too-strong high C in the very next figure. He brings remarkable inner-voice detail to the Brahms and the Schumann, without sacrificing thrust in the former or a singing line in the latter. Ted Libbey Customer Rating:
Extractions: Ballade No.1 in G minor Sergei RACHMANINOFF Gyorgy Sandor LIGETI Three Etudes Igor STRAVINSKY The Firebird (Selections) Idil BIRET piano OVERALL NOISE RATING: 3 (Phone ringing in the second subject of the Ballade. ARGH) The Noise Rating Index is a partially-objective measurement of pager and handphone blasts, 9pm and 10pm watch beeps, coughing-during-the-pianissimo-bits, intra-audience conversation and other mind-bogglingly inept noises emitted in the concert hall during actual performance of music. It is measured on a scale of to 5, in increasing annoyance. This review has been kindly sponsored by the Singapore International Piano Festival Read reviews for all 4 nights!
Montreal International Musical Competition An outstanding organist and pianist with an original and individual style, wilhelm kempff died at his home there on 23 May 1991; his wife Helene von http://www.jeunessesmusicales.com/piano2004/en/actualites/entrevue/0518.asp
Extractions: His face fills the screen. You notice the shaving cut on his cheek, the skin pigmentation dots that come with old age. Listening intently, sometimes he glances down; just as often hes looking up, much as a man might watching the circling of gulls over the seas edge. When the music moves into more adventurous harmonies, an expression almost of concern crosses Kempffs face. The medium, of course, is the DVD: a carrier of increasing, repeatable delight to the pianophile as archive material comes into the public domain. (Who could forget, for instance, the historic clip of Horowitzs hands, uniquely curved, flickering over the keys part of Warners Art of Piano?) Beethoven was central to his art: the Hammerklavier won him the Mendelssohn Prize as a student of Heinrich Barth (also Artur Rubinsteins teacher); he played the Fourth Concerto under Nikisch when making his Berlin Philharmonic debut in 1918; the Ecossaise, WoO86, and C major Bagatelle, Op.33 No.5, were his first recordings, made in Berlin in 1920, where apparently he mutters Donnerwetter! after a finger-slip in Op.33. He began to record the sonatas on shellac from 1929, later completing two LP cycles, mono and stereo, for Deutsche Grammophon, but his 78rpm sets lacked Nos.3, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 28. The instruments were by Bechstein and Grotrian-Steinweg.
