Word: lipatti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Queen Isabella II of Spain gave Violinist Pablo de Sarasate a Stradivarius when he was ten (actually, as Slonimsky later learned, Sarasate bought the Strad himself when he was 22). And Slonimsky's new dictionary contains another error of which he is still unaware: Rumanian Pianist Dinu Lipatti died of what his doctor called lympho-granulomatosis (Hodgkin's disease), not of rheumatoid arthritis...
...months before he died of Hodgkin's disease, at 33, Rumanian-born Pianist Dinu Lipatti played for the last time in public, at the 1950 International Festival in Besangon, France. To keep the date, he overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry...
Illness and World War II kept Lipatti from touring widely. He studied in Paris fled to Switzerland during the war; by the time postwar Europe began to marvel at him, he was no longer well enough to travel. Although he was short and frail, he had the massively muscled shoulders of a boxer and steel-fingered hands. "Macaroni fingers!" he said contemptuously when sometimes he failed to play with his usual precision. A perfectionist, he preferred not to play Beethoven because he felt he was not yet worthy of the music. Along with the big technique and virile style, Lipatti...
Mozart: Sonata in A Minor, K. 310 (Dinu Lipatti, piano; Columbia). Pianist Lipatti died two years ago at 33, but not before he made a series of recordings. His Mozart is water-clear; the briefest melodic line takes on significance, and sounds as easy as breathing...
Igor Kipnis '52 will be the "Guest Collector" over station WGBH tonight at 8 p.m. He will play recordings of Dino Lipatti, the late Roumanian pianist...