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Freddy Kempf
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Freddy Kempf is an English pianist, born in 1977 in London to a German father and a Japanese mother. Having resided in London for many years and studying at the Royal Academy of Music, he now lives in Berlin. Taking up the piano at the age of four, Kempf first caught the attention of British concertgoers four years later when he played Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12, K. 414, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall. The child virtuoso was shortly invited to Germany to repeat his performance. In 1987, Kempf won the first National Mozart Competition in England and in 1992, was named BBC Young Musician of the Year for his performance of Rachmaninoff's Paganini Rhapsody. In a controversial turn of events, Kempf's early adult career ironically benefited from his failure to win the 1998 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where the first prize in the piano section went instead to Denis Matsuev. Apparently, some judges had wanted to award the first prize jointly to Matsuev and Kempf and had successfully negotiated with the Russian Culture Ministry for the additional funding. However, Kempf collected only third prize in the end, which provoked a barrage of indignant protests from the audience and the Russian press, who accused some of the judges of bias (especially towards contestants who also happened to be their former pupils). In April 1999, Kempf returned to Moscow with a series of television broadcasts and sold-out concerts. Kempf's popula
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 1 in C Major: Allegro
1,209212 Études, Op. 25: No. 12 in C Minor, "Ocean": Allegro molto con fuoco
1,171312 Études, Op. 10: No. 2 in A Minor: Allegro
948412 Études, Op. 10: No. 5 in G-Flat Major, "Black Key": Vivace
9135Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
725612 Études, Op. 10: No. 8 in F Major: Allegro
711712 Études, Op. 25: No. 1 in A-Flat Major, "Aeolian Harp": Allegro sostenuto
701812 Études, Op. 10: No. 11 in E-Flat Major: Allegretto
686912 Études, Op. 25: No. 2 in F Minor: Presto
67710Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile
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