Dinu Lipatti Quotes

Dinu Constantin Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from causes related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. March 1917 – 2. December 1950
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Dinu Lipatti Quotes

“You see, it is not enough to be a great composer. To write music like that you must be a chosen instrument of God.”

Listening Beethoven's F minor Quartet; Quoted by Walter Legge, in Walter Legge: Words and Music (1998) edited by Alan Sanders

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