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4 unusual facts about Dinu Lipatti


Chêne-Bourg

The pianist Dinu Lipatti is buried in the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine.

Dinu Lipatti

The Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Harold C. Schonberg wrote of Lipatti's 1947–48 Chopin concert recordings: "this is piano-playing of a stature that few artists of his generation could have come near approaching".

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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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Lipatti is buried at the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine (1915-1982), a noted piano teacher.



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