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Dinu Lipatti (Constantin Lipatti) was born on 19 April, 0017 in Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania, is a Romanian pianist and composer (1917–1950). Discover Dinu Lipatti's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 33 years old?

Popular As Constantin Lipatti
Occupation Pianist*Composer
Age 33 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 19 April, 1917
Birthday 19 April
Birthplace Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Date of death 2 December, 1950
Died Place Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality Romania

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1908

Lipatti is buried at the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine (1908–1982), a noted piano teacher.

Lipatti's piano playing 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, and 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.

Lipatti never recorded any of Beethoven’s music.

It is a common misconception, however, that Lipatti did not perform Beethoven's music until late in his career.

1917

Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti (1 April 1917 – 2 December 1950) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from effects related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33.

He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.

He composed few works, all of which demonstrated a strong influence from Bartok.

A relentless perfectionist, Lipatti often prepared many years for major performances, such as four years for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 and three for Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.

He left a small number of recordings, and they are well-regarded, particularly that of Alborada del gracioso from Ravel's Miroirs suite.

In his short lifetime he was highly acclaimed by many musical figures of the 20th century, namely Yehudi Menuhin, Alfred Cortot, Nadia Boulanger, and Francis Poulenc.

Constantin Lipatti (from childhood called by the diminutive "Dinu") was born in Bucharest into a musical family: his father was a violinist who had studied with Pablo de Sarasate and Carl Flesch, his mother a pianist.

For his baptism, which occurred not shortly after birth as is usual, but when he was old enough to play the piano, the violinist and composer George Enescu agreed to be his godfather.

Lipatti played a minuet by Mozart at his own baptism.

He studied at the Gheorghe Lazăr High School, while studying piano and composition with Mihail Jora for three years.

He then attended the Bucharest Conservatoire, studying under Florica Musicescu, who also taught him privately.

1930

In June 1930, the best pupils at the Conservatoire gave a concert at the Bucharest Opera, and the 13-year-old Lipatti received a huge ovation for his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor.

1932

In 1932 he won prizes for his compositions: a Piano Sonatina, and a Sonatina for Violin and Piano.

That year he also won a Grand Prize for his symphonic suite Les Tziganes.

1933

He entered the 1933 Vienna International Piano Competition and finished second to Polish pianist Bolesław Kon, some say controversially.

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).

At eighteen, Lipatti gave his recital debut in Paris at the École Normale.

1935

On 17 May 1935, three days before the concert, his friend and teacher, Paul Dukas, died and in his memory Lipatti opened his program with J. S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring in the transcription by Myra Hess, the first piece he publicly performed as an adult pianist.

Lipatti's career was interrupted by World War II.

The Waldstein Sonata had been a feature of Lipatti's repertoire since 1935.

1940

It was while teaching at the Geneva Conservatory in the 1940s that the first signs of Lipatti illness emerged.

He also performed the Emperor Concerto in Bucharest twice during the 1940–41 season, and even stood ready to record it for EMI in 1949.

1943

Although he gave concerts across the Nazi-occupied territories, as the war grew closer he fled his native Romania in September 1943 with his companion and fellow pianist, Madeleine Cantacuzene.

With the aid of Edwin Fischer he emigrated to Geneva, Switzerland where he accepted a position as professor of piano at the Geneva Conservatory.

His pupils at the conservatory included Charles Reiner and Béla Síki.

1947

At first, doctors were baffled, and in 1947 he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.

His energy level was improved for a time by then experimental injections of cortisone and his collaboration with record producer Walter Legge between 1947 and 1950 resulted in the majority of the recordings of Lipatti's playing.

1948

He and Madeleine married in 1948 as Lipatti's health continued to decline.

As a result, his public performances became considerably less frequent after the war.

1950

Lipatti gave his final recital, also recorded, on 16 September 1950 at the Besançon Festival in France.

Despite severe illness and a high fever, he gave superb performances of Bach's Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, Mozart's A minor Sonata, K. 310, Schubert's G-flat major and E-flat major Impromptus, Op. 90, and thirteen of the fourteen Chopin Waltzes which he played in his own integral order.

Coming to the last one, No. 2 in A-flat, he found he was too exhausted to play it and he offered instead Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, the piece with which he had begun his professional career only fifteen years before.

He died less than 3 months later in Geneva aged 33, from a burst abscess on his one lung.