How is this for a curiosity? Though we did not have dig deep to find it. It is sitting right out there on Wikipedia.
It is about Dinu Lipatti. That is Lipatti up above, with his wife, Madeleine.
"For his baptism, which occurred not shortly after birth as is usual, but when he was old enough to play the piano, the violinist and composer George Enescu agreed to be his godfather. Lipatti played a minuet by Mozart at his own baptism."
How odd!
I tried Googling around but all I found are those same clumsy couple of sentences, echoed over and over. The only other thing I found was in some book on Google Books, which said that Lipatti's baptism was delayed by the onset of World War I. That sounds kind of strange. In an emergency you do not have to be a priest to perform a baptism. So, most mysterious.
Why was George Enescu his godfather?
Also, what Mozart minuet did little Dinu play? I am imagining one of the first, K. 1 or K. 2. But you never know, being Dinu Lipatti he might have soared like an eagle and played, I don't know, the minuet from "Don Juan."
I cannot imagine we will ever clear this up. But just in case...
We should consult the Dinu Lipatti Society.
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