Stylistic and Performance Musical Aspects in “Sonatina for the left- hand op. 10’’ for piano by Dinu Lipatti
Stylistic and Performance Musical Aspects in “Sonatina for the left- hand op. 10’’ for piano by Dinu Lipatti

Summary/Abstract: Dinu Lipatti, one of the greatest Romanian pianists of the 20th century, is highlighted in this study as the composer of a Chamber Music piano piece for his left hand alone, composed in 1941. Starting from a historical investigation of the context in which this type of repertoire developed in the piano instrumental practice, we arrive to analyse, from a musical and stylistically point of view Lipatti’s musical score, and to investigate to what extent, this Sonatina, singular in his compositional catalogue, but also in the interwar Romanian chamber music creation, is integrating in the Stylistic Currents of the Era. The emphases will also switch to delimit elements, which derived from a specific left hand piano writing, referring to specific performing skill. Not least the innovations brought by Dinu Lipatti to a specific texture which can apply efficiently to the piano performance rendition with a left hand.

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