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	Wilhelm Kempff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilhelm Kempff (November 25, 1895 – May 23, 1991) was a German pianist and composer.
		Kempff was born in Jüterbog, Germany and studied in Berlin and Potsdam.
		Considered one of the greatest pianists of twentieth century, Kempff is celebrated today for his recordings of Schumann, Brahms, Schubert, Mozart, Bach, Liszt, Chopin and particularly, of Ludwig van Beethoven.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilhelm_Kempff (293 words)

	M.E.A. - WILHELM KEMPFF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kempff is immortalized in a magnificent bronze bust by Breker.
		Wilhelm Kempff, born on November 25, 1895 in Jüterbog near Berlin, came from a very musical family: the father was a royal music director and organist of the St. Nicolai Church in Potsdam, the grandfather was organist, his brother Georg was director of church music at the University of Erlangen.
		Kempff, who since 1955 had sought rest and tranquility after his demanding concert tours in his home in Ammerland at the Starnberger Lake near Munich, spent the last five years of his life in his house in the picture-pretty Italian town of Positano in the rocky bay of Salerno and Amalfi.
	www.meaus.com /articles/KEMPFF.html (586 words)

	Station Information - Wilhelm Kempff
		Wilhelm Kempff (November 25, 1895 - May 23, 1991) was a German pianist and composer.
		Truly one of the greatest pianists of 20th century and the "Poet of the piano", Kempff is celebrated today for his recordings of Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin.
		Kempff's recordings of the complete Beethoven and Schubert piano sonatas are regarded as some of the greatest ever made.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wilhelm_kempff.html (230 words)

	Kempff complete 1950s concertos [CH]: Classical CD Reviews- Apr 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If Kempff’s name was not especially coupled with Mozart, the present concerto coupling suggests that this was merely because he was not often asked to perform that composer’s music or, in the case of three concerto couplings on LP with Ferdinand Leitner, because he was allotted a somewhat heavy-handed conductor.
		Kempff’s playing displays the same characteristics as his Mozart and it is again remarkable how free he sounds when a metronome would tell you that his tempi are adhered to pretty strictly.
		Kempff recorded a fair amount of Schumann’s solo piano music in his later years; maybe too late since the general feeling was that he was unable to identify with the composer’s more passionate Florestan moments, thus weakening the attractive poetry he found elsewhere.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Apr03/Kempff_box.htm (1714 words)

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		Kempff cuts short the rests at the end of each phrase and changes the rhythm of several chords in the center.
		Kempff's strengths are, in my opinion, better suited to the Haydenesque early sonatas and to the clarity and profundity of the late sonatas than to the early-middle to middle piano sonatas played here, which call for a more fiery temperament and style of playing than Kempff's admirably clear, lucid approach.
		Wilhelm Kempff is considered to be one of the great Beethoven pianists of the century.
	www.thesession.org /shop/display.php/B000001GQ1 (2121 words)

	Wilhelm Kempff Discography
		Kempff is the opposite, or as it might be better put, the complement of Backhaus in German piano playing.
		Kempff hardly has the resources of combined chorus and orchestra at his disposal, or even an organ, but when hearing the hymn theme intone, I forget momentarily that it is a piano playing.
		Wilhelm Kempff was born in a Jterborg, a small town about thirty miles south of Berlin, on 1895 November 25.
	www.panix.com /~checker/kempff.htm (3740 words)

	Brittens Music - Articles and Reviews: Music & Arts
		Kempff was a pianist gifted with a towering (yet humane) artistic stature, and it is a surprise that there are relatively few CDs on the market right now that are devoted exclusively to his pianism.
		Kempff is most distinctive when he is most intimate; he was a master of the mezzo piano and all the dynamic gradations that surrounded it.
		They do preserve some of Kempff's earlier work (although he was already 50 in 1945), and they prove that he didn't need the isolation and concentration of the recording studio to make himself one with the music that he was playing.
	www.redanonline.com /seafordmusic/smws10m&a.htm (1032 words)

	Document
		It is entirely right that Wilhelm Kempff's playing of the Beethoven sonatas should be represented in DG's series The Originals, though it might be argued that, as representative anthologies go, this one has been rather lazily assembled — the four most popular 'named' sonatas taken from the 1960s stereo cycle.
		Technically, Kempff himself was on prime form, though there are times when the engineering comes perilously close to letting him down.
		And how wonderfully of a piece with itself it all is. In his original notes, Kempff had spoken of the 'indissoluble' unity of the Grave and the Allegro di molto e con brio.
	home.wanadoo.nl /jdpt/reviews/Beet/Kempff_8-23.htm (363 words)

	Wilhelm Kempff 3 (Philips) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wilhelm Kempff, who died in 1991 at the age of 95, was among the last musical emissaries of German Romanticism.
		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.
		There is evidence aplenty of Kempff's extraordinary ear--as in the opening solo passage of the Mozart concerto, when he corrects for a slightly too-strong high C in the very next figure.
	johnkeyes.com /a/B00000JNQ6-wilhelm-kempff-3.html (558 words)

	Wilhelm Kempff 1
		Kempff plays with such poetry and grace that I found myself wondering if this was not Brahms' finest Opus after all.
		Kempff has always been more powerful than one realizes on first hearing and that is due to his unequalled (to my ears) touch and his instinct for sounding the poetry without sacrificing the form.
		Kempff's great achievement is to bring you face to face with a composer--and these encounters above all will reward you with each listen.
	www.ecbzz.com /a-music/B00000DBUG/Wilhelm-Kempff.html (513 words)

	Classic Archive - Wilhelm Kempff (2003)
		By all accounts Kempff seems to have been more comfortable in the recording studio than on the concert platform, and when long-playing records arrived in the 1950s he became internationally famous with recordings of the German classical-romantic repertoire, from Mozart to Brahms.
		Kempff's playing, though, has a special quality that breathes life into the music, and it is hard to imagine better performances than some of his recordings.
		Kempff seems to be oblivious of the audience or the cameras.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=5721 (1035 words)

	Wilhelm Kempff: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff was born in Jüterbog, Germany, on November 25, 1895.
		His father, also named Wilhelm Kempff [+], fame from a line of respected church organists, and first taught his son music and keyboard playing.
		Young Wilhelm had lessons with Ida Schmidt-Schlesike, then entered the Berlin Hochschule für Musik at the age of nine, to study composition with Robert Kahn [+] and piano with Heinrich Barth.
	music.com /person/wilhelm_kempff/1 (596 words)

	Amazon.com: Wilhelm Kempff Plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas & Schumann (EMI Classic Archive 24) (1964): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kempff has power to spare, but he uses it with a restraint that heightens its impact.
		Kempff's style is an attractive blend of intelligence and lyric grace; he is, like Alfred Brendel.
		In view of the angle of the camera, and the proportion of time between the hands and the face etc, the photography of this DVD is not too bad in comparision to the average films of the same period.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001AW052?v=glance (1242 words)

	Wilhelm Kempff 2
		While Beethoven is the composer whose interpretations Kempff is most noted for, this was certainly not his single specialty.
		Cortot and Kempff are the two piano-poets of the century, though their musical conceptions are very different.
		Kempff revolves around Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Bach and Schumann, whereas Cortot is associated primarily with Chopin and Schumann.
	www.wkonline.com /a/Wilhelm_Kempff_2_B00000IIY1.htm (426 words)

	Goldberg Variations by Wilhelm Kempff at jsbach.org
		Wilhelm Kempff made this recording in the final years of his life.
		Although Kempff was renowned for his interpretation of Beethovan's music, this particular recording of the Goldberg Variations by him is by all standards outstanding and refreshing.
		Kempff distils the essence of the Aria and all 30 variations without adding any "flowery" ornamentation.
	www.jsbach.org /kempffgoldbergvariations.html (317 words)

	Wilhelm Kempff (Schumann, Beethoven, Brahms [CF]: Classical Reviews- November 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nevertheless this disc manages to fill a gap in Kempff’s discography with the Beethoven and Brahms works, two of the composers (Schubert and Schumann the others) with whose music this great pianist is readily associated.
		By all accounts it was hot and humid in the Mozarteum on 31 July 1958 for Kempff’s recital, but he seemed unaffected and the audience were engrossed in his poetic playing of Schumann’s Fantasie.
		Brahms’ youthful sonata, his ‘Song of Love and Death’, is a highly Romantic showpiece which Kempff exploits to the full, belying his more advanced years, facing head on the technical hazards, such as the first movement’s complexities, and painting vivid colours of sound and dynamics.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Nov01/wilhelm_kempff.htm (426 words)

	WILHELM KEMPFF DISCOGRAPHY, by Frank Forman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wilhelm Kempff was born in a Jüterborg, a small town about thirty miles south of Berlin, on 1895 November 25.
		KEMPFF, WILHELM (1895-1981) Germany Libellen über dem Froschteich.
		WILHELM KEMPFF talking to a master class in Positano, Italy.
	www.trovar.com /Kempff.html (3692 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Wilhelm Kempff is on inspired, even daring form in this live 1939 broadcast.
		Certainly this performance is far superior to the aged Kempff's labored, valedictory version for DG.
		Kempff's sole foray into Fauré (pun intended), though, presents a Sixth Nocturne that unfolds with full-bodied understatement.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=2075 (439 words)

	Festivalul International "George Enescu": Gerhard OPPITZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kempff invited the young pianist to attend his private master class in Positano where he coached him in the sonatas and concertos of Beethoven.
		Kempff was impressed by the striking similarities in their interpretative outlooks.
		It was Wilhelm Kempff’s own wish that after his death, Gerhard Oppitz should continue the German musical tradition which linked them so closely.
	www.festivalenescu.ro /rom/artisti/oppitz.html (549 words)

	Amazon.com: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas [BOX SET]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kempff's relationship to Beethoven's music is so immediate and direct, his understanding of the sonatas so complete, that he can allow himself to be completely free and relaxed when he plays them.
		Kempff is, in my mind, not the most exciting of pianist's, but he everything that our modern school is not, in the best sense of the word.
		So, if you are a pianist, or if you are a fan of Kempff, you probably will get both his 50s and 60s recordings: for like most great pianists or indeed most great musicians, every time they play, it is going to be different and they are all instructive and inspiring in their own way.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001GCC?v=glance (3193 words)

	It is possible to happen that Wilhelm Kempff has found out about and visited Banff . Wilhelm Kempff thought Banff to be ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is possible to happen that Wilhelm Kempff has found out about and visited Banff.
		Wilhelm Kempff thought Banff to be a place where magic is in every part.
		Compared to Wilhelm Kempff everything is likely to appear as something bad.
	www.bad-bad-bad.com /singers/Siggy23840.htm (253 words)

	Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philarmoniker - Adagio Un Poco Mosso - Last.fm
		Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philarmoniker - Adagio Un Poco Mosso - Last.fm
		Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philarmoniker - Adagio Un Poco Mosso
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	INKPOT CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS : SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL - Idil BIRET
		Tonight's programme was nothing less than a tour de force of piano playing, offering snippets of her vast repertoire, and if in some spots her playing was technically not up to the standards of the rest of the concert at least it was never boring.
		Biret was a prominent student of Kempff, so her playing Kempff's own transcription of Bach must have had particular authority, but I found the first two out of the three rather unsatisfactory, as if she was warming up to the keyboard.
		In spite of the long programme, Ms Biret gave an encore of Wilhelm Kempff's transcription of Handel's G-minor minuet, a crystalline performance that had none of the flaws of the Bach and which was a pleasure to listen to.
	inkpot.com /concert/sipf20041.html (953 words)

	Music DVD-V Reviews (DVD1) - AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
		Kempff plays with an easy lyricism, and his form in 1964 is quite strong; there are few of the finger-slips that plagued his later work.
		There is an especial dignity and sobriety Kempff brings to Beethoven; whether one chooses to call his playing "magisterial" or "noble," there is no forcing of the emotional issues, and the melodic-harmonic texture appears to flow out of itself.
		So rapt is Kempff within the melodic labyrinths of the Adagio that the circling of the camera only seem to tiptoe around his shoulders.
	www.audaud.com /audaud/DEC04/dvd-v/dvd1.html (3957 words)

	Classical Net Review - Chopin - Piano Music by Kempff
		The first piece on the CD is the Sonata #2, which happens to be one of my favorite pieces (along with all the sonatas of Beethoven, Schubert, and Mozart...) and something of a test for performers.
		I really couldn't imagine Kempff playing Chopin, in spite of his excellence at Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert, so I had to hear it.
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	Biography and Discography - Wilhelm Kempff
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas / Wilhelm Kempff at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kempff is especially renowned for Beethoven...which he played with grace, fullness and air.
		He was born into a musical German family and had his first piano lessons at the age of 5 from his dad, a distinguished organist.
		Kempff's first American appearance was in 1964 at Carnegie Hall.
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	Wilhelm Kempff Plays Beethoven Movie: Wilhelm Kempff Plays Beethoven DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Wilhelm Kempff Plays Beethoven Movie: Wilhelm Kempff Plays Beethoven DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		The acclaimed and talented German classical pianist Wilhelm Kempff enjoyed a career of remarkable longevity and stability.
		Originally filmed and telecast in 1964, Kempff focuses here on one of the composers he specialized in -- his fellow German, Beethoven.
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	Wilhelm Kempff - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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