Dinu Lipatti
Dinu Lipatti ( born March 19, 1917 in Bucharest, † December 2, 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland ) was a Romanian pianist and composer.
Life
Lipatti was born into a wealthy family of musicians Bucharest. His godfather was the Romanian composer, violinist and pianist George Enescu. With 16 years Lipatti participated in Vienna at the International Piano Competition. When he, the jury only conceded the second prize, the pianist Alfred Cortot left under protest the judging panel. The first prize was won by Pole Boleslaw Kon. Cortot was Lipattis teacher little later.
Dinu Lipatti 1934 went to the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where he studied orchestral conducting with Paul Dukas, Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky composition, with Alfred Cortot and Yvonne Lefébure piano and Charles Münch. He also took lessons with Artur Schnabel. His first recordings date back to 1937, together with Nadia Boulanger, he played for example the Brahms Waltzes Op 39 for four hands one.
After a tour of Scandinavia in 1943 he settled down in Switzerland. From 1944 he was professor at the Geneva Conservatory for piano master class. About the pianist Edwin Fischer got in touch with Walter Legge, the Lipatti recording classical music took them under contract. The first recordings for EMI found in 1947 in London. In the Royal Albert Hall Lipatti played the Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann by Herbert von Karajan, who Lipattis " divine " piano admired.
Lipatti died at age 33 from Hodgkin 's lymphoma. It had been diagnosed in 1947 with him and could not be treated at that time. In his last appearance in September 1950 in Besançon, he had weakened cancel the performance of the Chopin waltz through his illness; with Myra Hess ' piano transcription of the Bach chorale Jesus he said goodbye to his audience will always be my joy.
His few recordings were repeatedly republished (" Everlasting, unforgotten ," EMI). These include his recordings of Chopin's Barcarolle and B minor Sonata and Mozart's A minor Sonata, as well as the already mentioned piano concerto by Robert Schumann. These recordings were, inter alia, in the collection of piano - Kaiser ( see Joachim Kaiser) was added.
A Musical Friendship Association Lipatti with his compatriot, the pianist Clara Haskil, with the he performed a concert for two pianos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
He was married to pianist Madeleine Cantacuzene.
His tomb is located in the cemetery of Chêne -Bourg.