Photo: Germaine Martin (see: Bibliothèque nationale de France [1]) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Dinu Lipatti

ディヌ・リパッティ　/　でぃぬ・りぱってぃ

Pianist from Principality of Wallachia

March 19, 1917 – December 2, 1950　・　Bucharest, Principality of Wallachia

pianist
composer
music arranger

My Take

There are pianists who play the notes, and then there's Dinu Lipatti — a Romanian who packed several lifetimes of musical insight into just 33 years. I keep coming back to his recordings because they feel almost impossibly lucid: his Bach is architectural without being cold, his Chopin is tender without ever tipping into sentimentality, and his Mozart sounds like the composer himself might have approved. The tragedy of his story is real — Hodgkin's disease took him in 1950 — but what gets me most is his final Besançon recital recording, where he pushed through illness to play and still managed to leave something transcendent on tape. History has not been kind enough in keeping his name in everyday conversation, but anyone who discovers him tends to stay discovered.

Overview

Constantin "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 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 Hungarian composer Béla Bartok.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Dinu Lipatti
Name (Japanese): ディヌ・リパッティ
Reading: でぃぬ・りぱってぃ
Born: March 19, 1917 – December 2, 1950
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Snake
Origin: Bucharest, Principality of Wallachia
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: pianist / composer / music arranger / musician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Gheorghe Lazăr National College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8C%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3

Pianist — see all →　·　Composer — see all →　·　More people from Principality of Wallachia →