Wilhelm Kempff

Kempff (regs) saam met Ernest Ansermet (links) in 1965

Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November 1895 - 23 Mei 1991) was 'n Duitse pianis en komponis. Alhoewel sy repertorium Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt en Brahms insluit, is Kempff veral bekend vir sy vertolkings van Beethoven en Schubert se musiek. Hy het die volledige sonates van albei komponiste opgeneem.[1] Hy word beskou as een van die belangrikste eksponente van die Duitse tradisie gedurende die 20ste eeu en as een van die grootste pianiste van alle tye.[2]

  1. Schubert, Complete Piano Sonatas, 9-LP set Deutsche Grammophon 1976, one of a number of boxed sets issued under the title Hommage à Wilhelm Kempff to celebrate his fifty years of recording for the DG label. Booklets dedicated to both Schubert and Kempff.
  2. Kaiser, Joachim; Wooldridge, David, translator; Unwin, George, translator (1971). Great Pianists of Our Time. New York: Herder and Herder.OCLC 235884. An entire chapter is devoted to Kempff.

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