Since that time, those recordings have been published in the catalogue the world over and gradually supplemented by a handful of highly prized unpublished concert and broadcast performances. This site serves as an online tribute and resource to the pianist, featuring recordings, articles, photographs, and updates about releases, discoveries, and events. If you have any information about memorabilia and private recordings relating to Lipatti, please contact us by using the contact page on this site.
After a long wait, some previously lost recordings of Dinu Lipatti are now available! A decade after these recordings were first located in the hands of a collector in Brooklyn, New York, these rare private discs of the great pianist are now available on the Marston Records label click this link This video gives audio […].
Chopin 's Waltzes has remained in print since its release and has long been a favorite of many classical music-lovers. In addition to his pianistic accomplishments, Dinu Lipatti was a composer, who wrote in a neoclassical style with French and Romanian influences. He was posthumously made a member of the Romanian Academy in Home Page.
Dinu Lipatti Piano, Arranger. His compositions are less familiar than they should be, but his classes in Geneva became legendary, and his reviews were as acute as they were sympathetic. Yet it is as a pianist that he will always be remembered. In Alfred Cortot resigned from the jury of the International Piano Competition in Vienna when Lipatti was awarded only second prize.
In the first signs of leukaemia were diagnosed and although he sustained his professorship at the Geneva Conservatory —46 , he reduced the number of his appearances in Europe and cancelled projected tours of Australia and the Americas.
In he signed an exclusive contract with Columbia and, temporarily revived by cortisone, was able to make recordings at his home in Geneva under the supervision of the producer Walter Legge. Though these performances have been endlessly discussed and analysed their quality lives on, increased rather than diminished by time.
How puzzled Lipatti would have been by the idiosyncratic Bach of more recently celebrated specialists, by the apparent need for intervention; as if the composer needed help rather than illumination.
And his Chopin is a truly aristocratic response to music "in which emotion is permitted to suggest itself only through a veil of elaborate civility". His Schubert Impromptus, too, are flawless examples of his technical and musical regality: the G flat a full-bodied alternative to a more attenuated magic, the E flat with a final touch of defiance rather than deference.
He was obviously an extremely congenial individual and a musician of tremendous capabilities, and his playing has continued to captivate listeners through the widespread release of his commercial and live recordings. Biographical information provides a fascinating look at his formative influences and his achievements, and hitherto-unpublished information regarding his recording career and analysis of his pianistic approach cast new light on this most unique musician and his artistry.
Early studies and beyond There was never any doubt that Dinu Lipatti would devote his life to music. His proud, musical parents picked up on his natural talent right away, and with Georges Enescu as his godfather, his environment catered to his calling. Born March 19, in Bucharest, Romania, young Dinu Constantin was his birth name started studying piano with his mother at the age of four and was soon composing evocative descriptions of family members.
At eight he was under the supervision of local legend Mihail Jora, and he was eleven when he entered the class of Florica Musicescu at the Bucharest Academy. The teacher of other fine pianists such as Radu Lupu and the nearly forgotten Mindru Katz, Musicescu was apparently somewhat of a tyrant, and if Lipatti occasionally went home in tears, his respect for and faith in his teacher were undying. He remained in contact with her for his entire life. Other finalists included Gina Bachauer and Gyorgyi Sandor.
Cortot was indignant about the use of non-musical criteria in the decision-making process, and is reported to have resigned from the jury in protest this is, in fact, not clear, but his vocal objection certainly is. When Lipatti did go to play for Cortot at the Ecole Normale de Musique, he was immediately recognized and invited to study piano with Cortot and his assistant Yvonne Lefebure, and composition with Paul Dukas. Lipatti enjoyed a prosperous period of study and performing, being invited to the musical salons and concertizing successfully in Paris and nearby European cities.
At the outbreak of the war, Lipatti returned to Romania, and continued to enjoy a career as a soloist he performed the Liszt First Concerto with Mengelberg in addition to beginning a two-piano partnership with his future wife, Madeleine Cantacuzene.
While he wrote of a tour in March that was to find him performing throughout Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany with the likes of Abendroth and Boehm, he apparently did not go — concert programs exist for performances he made at that time in Romania. Friedrich Wuehrer performed on at least one of the scheduled occasions.
On September 4, , Lipatti left Romania with Madeleine, provisionally on a ten-day tour, and never returned. After a blown engine led to an emergency landing in Hungary, he traveled to Vienna, Stockholm, and Helsinki before giving a tour of Switzerland, enjoying such unprecedented success that he remained for some time in Switzerland.
A mysterious illness It was shortly after his arrival in Switzerland that the first signs of a mysterious illness appeared. It started out as a persistent fever, and after some time he was treated with X-ray therapy. He remained in precarious health for the rest of his life he had been somewhat weak since childhood and as such his general education had taken place at home , and baffled doctors, in their desperate attempts to find a solution, administered esoteric treatments that brought about serious side effects.
Despite frequent cancellations caused by ill health, Lipatti concertized throughout Europe in halls packed with audiences who had heard talk of a pianist who brought unimaginable depth to his interpretations. The musical world outside of Europe began to learn of Lipatti when the release of his Columbia recordings started in
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