He was a small man, but a big pianist. He was a virtuosic technician who leapt into the spotlight early with flashy, eye-popping repertory ? the Khachaturian concerto, Liszt?s Mephisto Waltz ? and then spent the rest of his life working on deepening his maturity and insight in, for instance, subtler works by Schubert and Bach. He died at 31 when the plane he was on hit a mountain near San Francisco in 1953. His name is William Kapell, and he is the namesake of the piano competition and festival that starts this week at the Clarice Smith Center.
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