City of Geneva remembers Dinu Lipatti
The city of Geneva is honoring the pianist Dinu Lipatti, who died young in 1950, with a memorial plaque on the house he lived in with his wife Madeleine in the city on the Rhone before his death to mark the centenary of his birth
The house is located at 7 Rue des Chaudronniers, where the Romanian pianist lived for the last few years of his life. With the plaque, the city wants to commemorate his "immense talent and unmistakable style", which continues to influence pianists to this day. Lipatti settled in Switzerland in 1943 and taught a piano master class at the Geneva Conservatory from 1944.
At his last performance on September 16, 1950 in Besançon, he had to cut short his concert due to weakness; he bid farewell to the audience with a piano arrangement of the Bach chorale "Jesus bleibet meine Freude". He died at the age of 33 on December 2, 1950 in Geneva. His grave is in the cemetery in Chêne-Bourg.
