Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16: III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato
Dinu Lipatti (March 19, 1917, Bucharest – December 2, 1950, Geneva) was a R… Read Full Bio ↴Dinu Lipatti (March 19, 1917, Bucharest – December 2, 1950, Geneva) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was tragically cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. Despite his short career and a relatively small recorded legacy, Lipatti is considered as one of the finest pianists of the 20th century.
Lipatti was born in Bucharest into a musical family: his father was a violinist, his mother a pianist, and his godfather was the violinist and composer George Enescu. He studied at the Gheorghe Lazăr High School, and finished second at the 1934 Vienna International Piano Competition, which led to Alfred Cortot, who thought he should have won, resigning from the jury in protest. Lipatti subsequently studied in Paris under Cortot, Nadia Boulanger (with whom he recorded some of Johannes Brahms Waltzes Op. 39), Paul Dukas (composition) and Charles Münch (conducting).
Lipatti's career was interrupted by World War II. Although he continued to give concerts throughout Europe, including Nazi-occupied territories, he eventually fled his native Romania in 1943 and settled with his wife in Geneva, Switzerland, where he accepted the position as piano professor at the conservatory. It was at this time that the first signs of his illness emerged. At first, doctors were baffled, but in 1947 he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease. As a result, his concertizing receded considerably after the war.
Lipatti gave his final recital, which was recorded, on 16 September 1950 in Besançon. Despite severe illness, he gave unmatched performances of Bach’s B flat major Partita, Mozart’s A minor Sonata, Schubert's G flat major and E flat major Impromptus, and thirteen of Chopin's 14 Waltzes. He excluded No. 2, which he was too exhausted to play; he offered instead Myra Hess’s transcription of Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. He died less than 3 months later.
Lipatti is buried at the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine, a noted piano teacher.
Lipatti was born in Bucharest into a musical family: his father was a violinist, his mother a pianist, and his godfather was the violinist and composer George Enescu. He studied at the Gheorghe Lazăr High School, and finished second at the 1934 Vienna International Piano Competition, which led to Alfred Cortot, who thought he should have won, resigning from the jury in protest. Lipatti subsequently studied in Paris under Cortot, Nadia Boulanger (with whom he recorded some of Johannes Brahms Waltzes Op. 39), Paul Dukas (composition) and Charles Münch (conducting).
Lipatti's career was interrupted by World War II. Although he continued to give concerts throughout Europe, including Nazi-occupied territories, he eventually fled his native Romania in 1943 and settled with his wife in Geneva, Switzerland, where he accepted the position as piano professor at the conservatory. It was at this time that the first signs of his illness emerged. At first, doctors were baffled, but in 1947 he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease. As a result, his concertizing receded considerably after the war.
Lipatti gave his final recital, which was recorded, on 16 September 1950 in Besançon. Despite severe illness, he gave unmatched performances of Bach’s B flat major Partita, Mozart’s A minor Sonata, Schubert's G flat major and E flat major Impromptus, and thirteen of Chopin's 14 Waltzes. He excluded No. 2, which he was too exhausted to play; he offered instead Myra Hess’s transcription of Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. He died less than 3 months later.
Lipatti is buried at the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine, a noted piano teacher.
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Piano Concerto in A Minor Op. 16: III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato
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Otilia Kloos
Dinu Lipatti opening Grieg Concerto in A minor Op.16 :
Safety of the confidence in the power of the Soul.
Souls do not get out, nor do they enter. Ivory tower of the bitter thoughts inside the customs of eternity.
Relevant watch that screams in the mourning!
Pensee pale traverse le pays de la mort.
Pensee qui ne peut briser ce rideau qui s'endort derriere l'avenir qui couvre le passe.
Antonietta Canale
Atmosfere di un mondo che non sarà più. Grazie Maestro Lipatti!Pochi anni per regalarci tanto bene!!!
innocenzo barrera
A 70 anni quasi dall'esecuzione, rimane la versione più seguita ed accreditata. Un miracolo! SOMMO.
Marialaura Garbarino
Lo chiesi, e lo ottenni, per la promozione all’esame di terza media. Va da sé che, avendo io quasi 58 anni, ho ancora il vinile…
Anca Balian
The best Grieg concert I ever heard ! Dinu Lipatti was one of the best pianist in the world .RIP
Pierre Henri Pontac
Great I valid ..but hear Van Cliburn and K Kondrashin...
Hans de Korver
@Raineri Hakkarainen But you are forgetting Dinu !
Raineri Hakkarainen
The greatest pianists of All Time Are really Artur Rubinstein Grigory Sokolov Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Mikhail Pletnev Sviatoslav Richter Maurizio Pollini Wilhelm Kempff Vladimir Ashkenazy Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky Solomon Cutner Maria Grinberg Natalia Trull Rosa Tamarkina Ekaterina Novitskaya
Raphael Kreutzer
...and among the best pianists by far the best musician!!!
helenkurdin Channel of Galina Kurdina
He is not the one of the best, he is the best pianist in the world.
Viorel Gihac
Geniu, explozie de forță gingășie și acurate=Dinu Lipatti