{"id":12376,"date":"2026-10-08T13:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12376"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:01:01","slug":"tokyo-festival-celebrates-romanian-pianist-dinu-lipatti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12376","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo festival celebrates Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dinu Lipatti \u2013 Tokyo Music Festival<\/em>, an event celebrating the Romanian pianist and composer, is scheduled to take place starting this weekend at the Min-On Cultural Centre in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The event will bring together musicians Ryugo Yoshino, the Japanese-born pianist who will open the event; tenors Liviu Indric\u0103u and Andrei Petre; pianist Constantin Sandu; violinist Diana Jipa and pianist \u0218tefan Doniga; the Pite\u0219ti Philharmonic String Quartet; FilJazz &amp; Anita Petruescu; and Doina Arge\u0219ului Ensemble.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the music program, the festival covers a documentary exhibition dedicated to the pianist\u2019s life, created with the support of the Dinu Lipatti Memorial House Museum in Fund\u0103\u021beanca, Arge\u0219 County.<\/p>\n<p>Dinu Lipatti Photo: Romanian Cultural Institute<\/p>\n<p>Born into a family of musicians, Lipatti completed his musical training in Bucharest with Florica Musicescu and later in Paris under Alfred Cortot, Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger. At 15, he received the Paul Ciuntu Prize at the Bucharest Conservatory. In 1932, he won prizes for his compositions (Piano Sonatina and Sonatina for Violin and Piano) as well as the Grand Prize for his symphonic suite <em>\u0218\u0103trarii \/ Les Tziganes<\/em>. In 1933, at the age of 16, he won the second prize at the International Piano Competition in Vienna. That same year, he won the second prize of the George Enescu Composition Competition. In 1934, he won first prize at the same Enescu competition for <em>\u0218\u0103trarii<\/em><em>. In 1942, he was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit, Knight Class II. His final public concert, a recital in Besan\u00e7on on September 16, 1950, became legendary: weakened by illness, he ended the recital not with the waltz listed in the program, but with Bach\u2019s <\/em> Jesus bleibet meine Freude.<\/p>\n<p>The festival takes place from October 10 to October 12.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinu Lipatti \u2013 Tokyo Music Festival, an event celebrating the Romanian pianist and composer, is scheduled to take place starting this weekend at the Min-On Cultural Centre in Tokyo. The event will bring together musicians Ryugo Yoshino, the Japanese-born pianist who will open the event; tenors Liviu Indric\u0103u and Andrei Petre; pianist Constantin Sandu; violinist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}