# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-kapell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:54:03.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-kapell"
name: "William Kapell"
slug: "william-kapell"
description: "Oscar William Kapell was an American classical pianist. The Washington Post described him as \"America's first great pianist\", while The New York Times described him as \"one of the last century's great geniuses of the keyboard\" and Times critic and pianist Michael Kimmelman, writing in The New York Review of Books, remarked: \"Was there any greater American pianist born during the last century than Kapell? Perhaps not.\" In 1953, at age 31, Kapell died in the crash of BCPA Flight 304 while returning from a concert tour in Australia."
tagline: "American classical pianist and recording artist (1922-1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Kapell_1948.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1922-09-20"
deathDate: "1953-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.63006
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "وليام كابيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kapell"
    title: "William Kapell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kapell"
    title: "William Kapell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kapell"
    title: "William Kapell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%A9%D9%BE%D9%84"
    title: "ویلیام کپل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kapell"
    title: "William Kapell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kapell"
    title: "William Kapell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ウィリアム・カペル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kapell"
    title: "William Kapell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Капелл, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%A9%D9%BE%D9%84"
    title: "ولیم کپل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Kapell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/79f8d39b-835c-4361-92e4-9217ad528d4f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q385331"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump