Beethoven moonlight sonata wilhelm kempff biography

          Completed in and dedicated in to his student, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, it is one of Beethoven's most popular musical compositions for the piano.

          Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November – 23 May ) was a German pianist, teacher and composer..


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          Ludwig van BEETHOVEN()
          Complete Piano Sonatas
          Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
          rec.

          Hannover, Beethoven Saal, /65
          DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON [8 CDs: ]

          Wilhelm Kempff recorded the Beethoven Sonatas three &#; almost four &#; times. The first time around, in the 20s through the 40s, he recorded 25 sonatas on shellacs for Polydor.

          This was well before Artur Schnabel set upon recording the sonatas.

          Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (–) was an archetypal German musician, born into a family of church organists and cantors.

        1. Wilhelm Kempff, born remains to this day one of the most important pianists of the 20th century, recording over an impressive period of.
        2. Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November – 23 May ) was a German pianist, teacher and composer.
        3. Wilhelm Kempff came from a family of Lutheran church musicians, his father being an organist who was transferred to Potsdam in Wilhelm's first lessons.
        4. Born: November 25, - Jüterbog, Germany Died: May 23, - Positano, Italy.

          5. After the war, recorded in the first half of the 50s, the mono cycle on LPs for DG came on the market. It&#;s a reasonably well known set, slightly rare, and very good. Then, fairly recently, came the surprise news from Japan that there was a complete cycle recorded by the NHK in , which makes it Kempff&#;s third cycle &#; and perhaps the most interesting (I&#;ve not heard it), because Kempff&#;s qualities are said, by Joachim Kaiser among others, to have shone most in concert and less on record.

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