Dinu Lipatti: Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, ‘Allegro vivace assai’ K 467
Dinu Lipatti (
Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdinu liˈpati]; 1 April [
O.S. 19
March] 1917 --
2 December 1950) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from
Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the
Romanian Academy. He entered the 1933
Vienna International Piano Competition but finished second, because the jury considered him too young.
Alfred Cortot, who thought Lipatti should have won, resigned from the jury in protest. Lipatti subsequently studied in
Paris under Cortot,
Nadia Boulanger (with whom he recorded some of
Brahms's Waltzes Op. 39),
Paul Dukas (composition) and
Charles Munch (conducting). He gave his first concert, at the
École Normale, on 20 May 1935. However, three days before the concert, Paul Dukas died; in memory of Dukas, Lipatti's first piece at his concert, and the piece he first publicly performed as an adult pianist, was
J. S. Bach's
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. 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 (
Madeleine Cantacuzene, also a concert pianist) 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 public performances became considerably less frequent after the war. Lipatti gave his final recital, which was recorded, on
16 September 1950 in
Besançon, France.
Despite severe illness, he gave unmatched performances of
Bach's Partita in
B flat major,
Mozart's
A minor Sonata,
Schubert's
G flat major and
E flat major Impromptus, and thirteen of
Chopin's 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, the piece with which he had started his professional career as a pianist in 1935. He died less than 3 months later, in
Geneva. Lipatti is buried at the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine, a noted piano teacher. Lipatti's piano playing was, and is, widely appreciated for the absolute purity of his interpretations, at the service of which he used a masterful pianistic technique. Lipatti is particularly noted for his interpretations of
Chopin, Mozart and
Bach, but he also made recordings of
Ravel's
Alborada del Gracioso,
Liszt, Enescu, and the Schumann and
Grieg piano concertos. His recording of Chopin's Waltzes has remained in print since its release and has long been a favorite of many classical music-lovers. Dinu Lipatti's legacy to new generations of musicians consists of numerous recordings of his concerts worldwide; the power, beauty and sincerity of his recordings continue to inspire and uplift pianists and music lovers. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to classical music interpretation and composition he was posthumously elected in
1997 as a member of the Romanian Academy
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