Paul van Kempen was a Dutch-German conductor, active in German and Dutch orchestral life during the first half of the twentieth century.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Berlioz, Reger, Schumann, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, including Hamburg and Berlin-linked recordings with Fritz Busch and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Van Kempen’s conducting belonged to the central European Kapellmeister tradition, with a strong practical command of Romantic and Classical repertory.

His page is justified by repeated catalogue presence and historical standing. Van Kempen gives the orchestral shelf a firm old-world podium outline.