The Rudolf Kempe Society has announced the death of Cordula Kempe, widow of the conductor and Artistic Director of the Rudolf Kempe Society. Cordula was 81. She was a most cheerful advocate of her late husband’s legacy.
Rudolf Kempe, former artistic director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, died in 1976.
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