由 Patrick 發表於 週一 9月 16, 2002 11:39 am
標 題:PAUL VAN KEMPEN --3
發 表 人:blue97(blue97.tw)
發表時間:2002/03/18 00:53:45
Like Mengelberg, Van Kempen's musical sympathies were clearly Germanic, and by 1916 he was earning his living playing in German orchestras – he was concert master in Posen, Bad Nauheim and other cities - and receiving his earlier experience as a conductor. After a two-year apprenticeship as music director in Oberhausen, he was appointed conductor of the ailing Dresden Philharmonic in 1934, whose fortunes he guided during the next eight years. During his tenure, Van Kempen transformed the orchestra into one of the best in Germany, earning special praise for his precise yet sweeping interpretations of the major choral and orchestral scores of German Romanticism.
The fact that Van Kempen remained active in Hitler's Germany throughout the war years after Dresden, he succeeded Herbert von Karajan as principal conductor in Aachen in 1942 - certainly did nothing to endear him to his fellow countrymen. Yet
unlike Mengelberg, who openly collaborated with the Nazis during the occupation of The Netherlands and was eventually banished to Switzerland in disgrace, Van Kempen, after several years of guest conducting abroad and leading the annual conducting seminar at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, was eventually allowed to return to his homeland and in 1949 became conductor of the Hilversum Radio Philharmonic. In 1953, he was made general music director in Bremen. By the time that his post-war career was just beginning to revive, he died on 8 December 1955, at the relatively youthful age of 62.