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It’s strange that Lipatti, who would spend daily several hours writing letters to his teachers and friends, shouldn’t mention this Allegro written while he was studying composition with Nadia Boulanger. A homework assigned by the celebrated pedagogue? Taking some time off from writing other, highly demanding works? (let’s not forget that in 1936 Lipatti created his most famous piece, the Concertino en style classique for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, in addition to a Fantasie for Violin, Cello and Piano and an unfinished Toccata for Strings). In this short work, 19-year-old Lipatti proves that he masters the rules of music writing and that he is already possessed of a style which leaves conventional (tonal, modal) systems behind: he employs here the chromatic total, dividing it into motifs gravitating around the note C. Text: Monica Isăcescu. Bucharest, Septembrie 2020.
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