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	William Kapell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Kapell (September 20, 1922–October 29, 1953) was a American pianist.
		The critic Harold Schonberg once considered Kapell the most promising American pianist of the post-World War II generation.
		Unfortunately, Kapell's brilliant career was cut short when he died in a airplane crash at the age of thirty-one.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Kapell (278 words)

	William Kapell Edition (Box Set) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		120/1 Composed by Johannes Brahms with William Kapell, William Primrose
		108 Composed by Johannes Brahms with Jascha Heifetz, William Kapell
		Adagio Composed by Johannes Brahms with Jascha Heifetz, William Kapell
	www.mystery-games.com /wikaedbse.html (1653 words)

	NPR : Performance Today -- Remembering William Kapell
		Kapell on recording the Bach Partita in D major - from a March 1953 interview
		Born in New York on September 22, 1920, Kapell studied with the legendary Olga Samaroff at the Philadelphia Conservatory and at Juilliard.
		For decades, Kapell's recordings were completely out of print, until five years ago when RCA released the William Kapell Edition, a 9-CD set of all of Kapell's approved recordings, many never before released, and a 22-minute interview from March of 1953, seven months before his death.
	www.npr.org /programs/pt/features/2003/nov/kapell.html (410 words)

	Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2 Kapell []: Classical CD Reviews- Jun2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There are some glittering orchestral colours here: chattering woodwind, Kapell’s skittering runs; in Variation 7 Reiner moulds the rise and fall of the bass’s counter-theme with tremendous control and with meltingly affecting violins at the close.
		Kapell is crystalline in Variation 10 and in Variation 12 Reiner encourages beautifully entwining clarinet figures and horn playing - a perfect example of Reiner’s sensitivity and sagacity in matters of orchestral balance and momentum.
		Whilst Naxos makes much of Kapell’s "blistering intensity and electricity" what emerges from the grooves of these recordings is rather his balanced virtuosity and a musicality that never sacrificed sensitivity to sentimentality, bravura to bombast.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Jun02/Rachmaninov_pc2_kapell.htm (467 words)

	William Kapell Biography
		Among musicians of his generation William Kapell, just thirty-one on Sept. 20, 1953, was one of the great ones.
		It was only in the last two years that he had gained real access to the grand repertory of the piano, to the concertos of Mozart and Beethoven and Brahms and Chopin and to the suites of Bach and Debussy, and that he had been genuinely successful with that repertory.
		With it Kapell moved into the company of Horowitz and Rachmaninoff himself, who alone had conquered the citadel of that strange concerto, which is cheap unless it is magnificent.
	www.4music.net /links/kapell.htm (961 words)

	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		William Kapell was well on his way to becoming one of the 20th-century's most venerated pianists when in 1953, at age 31, he was killed in a plane crash returning from a concert tour in Australia.
		Seen through the wrong end of the time-telescope, William Kapell's all too short career seems shaped by a kind of aesthetic predestination: a blaze of brilliance too intense to be long-enduring.
		Kapell and his beautiful wife Anna-Lou and their infant son David were spending some weeks in a cottage on the Piatigorsky estate in Elizabethtown, N.Y., while I was a guest at the nearby summer home of the great impresario Fredric Mann (a subject for another article), whose chauffeur drove me to my lessons.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/j_articles447.html (1189 words)

	PM - Sounds of Summer: William Kapell
		NEWS REPORT EXTRACT: The world of music and particularly music in the United States suffered a stunning blow yesterday in the death of the young American pianist William Kapell who was aboard the British Commonwealth Pacific airliner that crashed on the Skyline Boulevard towards the end of a trip to San Francisco from Australia.
		LEIGH SALES: By the time he was 31 in 1953, Kapell was considered the greatest pianist of his generation and many thought he'd become the greatest player of the 20th Century.
		A treasury of pieces Kapell played in Australia was never recorded anywhere else — a Schubert A Major posthumous sonata, two Mozart sonatas and two concerti, Copeland piano variations, the Gigue from the Bach D Major partita.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2004/s1273682.htm (2599 words)

	Arbiter Liner Notes
		Essays on William Kapell (1922-1953) tend to focus on his unexpected, tragic passing while thorough research on Kapell's music-making and ideas has yet to be done.
		In a letter, Kapell mentioned having to contend with the work's "annoying entrances." Note how his playing blends with the orchestra's characteristic sound from this period while standing apart from them through a conception which is uncannily timeless.
		Kapell insisted on always having one of his own instruments to be able to count on them - even in a recital in a small college town before a student audience.
	www.arbiterrecords.com /notes/108notes.html (3617 words)

	Kapells Home Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kapell was elected to the Village of Greenport Board of Trustees, and served in that capacity until 1987.
		Kapell was elected Mayor of the Village of Greenport and is now in his third term of office.
		Kapell, a classically trained pianist, is the son of William Kapell, the late American concert pianist, and Dr. Anna Lou Dehavenon, an urban anthropologist and a respected authority on hunger and homelessness in New York City.
	www.kapells.com /about.html (206 words)

	DSCH 10 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Kapell in Recital
		On the advice of his teacher Olga Samaroff, Kapell made a specialty of the modern Russian repertoire, and Shostakovich's Concerto entered his repertoire the year before this performance (which is a radio relay, Kapell never having made a commercial recording of the work).
		Kapell's respect for a score did not blind him to the wit and sarcasm in Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto, which he called "a hilarious piece of nothing".
		Samuel Krauss on trumpet is no match for Kapell, and although in the first movement Ormandy extracts spry playing from his plush orchestra, the Philadelphia players can't manage not sounding a bit Hollywoody in the slow movement.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs10op35.htm (454 words)

	William Kapell Edition
		William Kapell, born in New York September 20, 1922, studied with Olga Samaroff, won the 1940 Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Contest while still at Juilliard, and the following year won both the Naumburg and Town Hall Endowment Awards.
		Kapell was obsessive about his art; he practised many hours each day, even on days when he was giving a concert.
		Kapell also had to overcome the stigma of being an American; most leading musicians of the time were of European heritage.
	classicalcdreview.com /willi3.html (1234 words)

	Bronson Piano Studio
		The memory of pianist William Kapell was graciously honored on Sunday afternoon, November 2, 2003 in the wonderfully resonant Zipper Concert Hall of the Colburn School of the Performing Arts when six excellent pianists performed original compositions plus work by Franz Liszt, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland.
		The concert was sponsored by The William Kapell Piano Foundation for Contemporary Music and Musicians, which was founded in 1978 by pianist Michael Sellers.
		The purpose of this Foundation is to enlarge the body of significant works for piano solo, to revive neglected but worthy piano works written after 1900 and to encourage the performance of neglected works by Franz Liszt which show his influence on 20th century music.
	www.bronsonpianostudio.com /reviews/110203r1.htm (879 words)

	Amazon.com: William Kapell: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kapell's performances of the Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Cto and the Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini are justifiably legendary.
		William Kapell (1922-1953) died tragically when only thirty-one, in a plane crash coming back to the US from a recital in Sydney.
		Kapell ' s twinkling pianism joined to his febrile temperament, accurate expressiveness and elegant tune made of him a genius of major level.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00001XDL1?v=glance (1606 words)

	Amazon.com: William Kapell Edition (Box Set) [BOX SET]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is a tribute to William Kapell that, although he died at the age of 31, he was already a mature artist.
		A recording of Kapell in recital from March of 1953 (including another definitive performance: the Copland Sonata) reveals that Kapell's extraordinary technique and musicianship are not the result of recording engineers and tape splicing--this is the real thing.
		William Kapell is still considered by most as the America's greatest pianist, even fifty odd years after his death at the age of 31 in a plane crash.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000B9MR?v=glance (3361 words)

	New recordings of iconic pianist unearthed. 27/11/2004. The Space: Arts News.
		An Australian music fan who has revealed he recorded performances by iconic pianist William Kapell, who died at age 31 in a 1953 plane crash, has created a stir in the music world.
		Kapell recorded for RCA and in 1998 BMG Classics released William Kapell Edition, a nine CD set of his complete commercial recordings as well as various live and home performances.
		Daniel Guss, director of the classical catalogue for BMG Classics, who also executive-produced William Kapell Edition, says his label is interested in issuing the newly unearthed recordings.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/news/artsnews_1252980.htm (179 words)

	PROKOFIEV pc3 SHOSTAKOVICH prel KHACHATURIAN Kapell 8.110673 [CH]: Classical Reviews- February 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Kapell (1922-1953) was an incredibly gifted young pianist whose life was cut short tragically in a plane crash at the age of 31.
		Kapell may be very "imaginative" in his almost neurotic underlining of the composer’s counterpoints and counter-melodies in the more lyrical sections, yet Perticaroli’s straightforward concentration on the melodic line leaves a more sympathetic impression.
		The point seems to be that Kapell’s larger than life approach can be revelatory when the material is strong, as in the Prokofiev, but risks thrashing the daylights out of Khachaturian’s more fragile plant.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Feb02/kapell.htm (765 words)

	Classical Net Review - William Kapell Edition
		Those of us who heard William Kapell live on the concert platform will not forget his brooding good looks, his fierce concentration and energy, his command of the instrument, and above all his passionate commitment to the music he was playing and its communication to the audience.
		Kapell first became well-known for his spectacular virtuosity in the great Russian showpieces, but soon abandoned them for earlier and later repertory, from Bach and Chopin to Copland and other contemporary composers.
		Kapell was often compared to Horowitz, whom he greatly admired, and Schnabel (whom he adored) once mistook one of his recordings for his own, but oddly, his musical objectivity and the often rather bleached quality of his tone puts me most in mind of Glenn Gould.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/r/rca68442b.html (658 words)

	Prokofiev Recordings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Kapell was a genius whose life was all too tragically cut short.
		Kapell also did a fantastic recording that would stand alongside the Argerich as a primary recommendation, but unfortunately, that is near-impossible to find in the stores, particularly in Singapore, and hence is not found on my list.
		Kapell's transcendental, brilliant and frighteningly urgent rendition of the Prokofiev concerto is given here in partnership with another legend, Leopold Stokowski with the Philharmonic Symphony.
	www.prokofiev.org /recordings/workall.cfm?WorkID=83 (1275 words)

	Classical Net Review - Prokofieff/Khachaturian/Shostakovich - Piano Concerto #3/Piano Concerto/Préludes
		In this performance of the Prokofieff Third, Kapell delivers the fastest one I know of – and I probably have thirty-five or forty CDs and LPs of it for comparison, which, I suppose, divulges my addiction to this concerto – and to the composer.
		In any event, Kapell, at 25:12, doesn't sound egregiously fast, as Argerich did in places in her first (DG) recording or Browning in his first (EMI) effort, both from decades ago.
		Kapell was an intense artist, with powerful technique.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/r/rca68993a.html (366 words)

	International Piano Archives at Maryland, UM Libraries
		William Kapell was a brilliant American pianist whose life and career were cut short by the crash of an airplane on which he was returning from an overseas tour in October 1953.
		He was barely 31, but was already acknowledged as the leading American pianist of his generation; some have said he would have been the greatest pianist of the 20th century.
		Born in 1922, Kapell studied piano with Dorothea Anderson LaFollette at the Yorkville Settlement School in New York and with Olga Samaroff at the Philadelphia Conservatory and, later, at the Juilliard School.
	www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/IPAM/IPAMkapell.html (628 words)

	The William Kapell Overture (washingtonpost.com)
		The Kapell is taking place at the University of Maryland, in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, a large complex with a yawning lobby, half a dozen performance venues, and a labyrinth of hallways vectoring off toward classrooms and studios.
		Moran has been to the Kapell once before, in 1998, and he advanced to the semifinal round, though that earlier success adds a generous pressure to at least live up to his previous effort.
		Anna Lou Dehavenon, William Kapell's widow, congratulates the nine semifinalists on their accomplishment and presents each of them with a boxed set of recordings by her late husband.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64386-2003Oct8¬Found=true (7376 words)

	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		On October 28, 1941, the brilliant young American pianist William Kapell (1922-1953) gave his Town Hall debut recital at the age of 19 as winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Competition.
		Kapell attended Juilliard for three years (1940-43) as a graduate fellowship student of Olga Samaroff, continuing on to a meteoric but lamentably brief career.
		An absorbing adjunct to the RCA edition are two volumes of Kapell broadcast performances on VAI Audio (VAIA 1027 and 1048) as well as a disc of Kapell in recital on Arbiter (108); all include repertory not offered by RCA.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/discoveries_0210.html (446 words)

	Kapell - iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jennifer L. Kapell is an associate in the Newark office of KRLandS.
		William Kapell was a brilliant American pianist whose life and career were Born in 1922, Kapell studied piano with Dorothea Anderson LaFollette at the
		Gunnfjauns Kapell was born in the fall of 1982 on the Baltic island of Gotland.
	www.globalinfogroup.com /glig/kapell.html (491 words)

	classical music - andante - ludwig van beethoven: piano concertos
		A fascinating survey of eight world-renowned pianists —; including William Kapell (right), Schnabel, Rubinstein, Gieseking and Serkin — representing a spectrum of interpretive approaches to these seminal works.
		Kapell has already enjoyed a critical and popular revival, albeit some 45 years after his death, when his complete recordings were issued in a nine-CD RCA Victor boxed set in 1998.
		It should have been the start of a glorious career; instead, Kapell was killed in a plane crash in 1953.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=20469 (601 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Pno Recordings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kapell made a studio recording of the Beethoven piano concerto which has been re-released a number of times, and which, all told, is superior to the outtake version here.
		This is an earlier recording of the work (1945 vs. 1951 for the one with Reiner), but the spontaneity and excitement of a Kapell live performance are captured here, which, when compared to the 1951 recording, render the latter just a little "stiff." The real treasure of this CD is the Schubert songs.
		Kapell brilliantly balances support for the singer with an intimate pianism which stands on its own.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000WQC (624 words)

	William Kapell Guestbook
		I heard William Kapell play the Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini with the fledgling Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the late 1940's or very early 1950's.
		As a youngster, I heard on the radio that the pianist, William Kapell, had been killed in a plane crash.
		Although the name Kapell seems to be rare indeed, I was quite surprised and delighted upon searching the "net" to find William Kapell and to read of his skills and accomplishments on your site...
	www.williamkapell.com /guestbook (1838 words)

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