Dinu Lipatti in the Archives of the Romanian Communist Secret Police
Dinu Lipatti in the Archives of the Romanian Communist Secret Police
Author(s): Vlad AlexandrescuSubject(s): Music
Published by: Editura Universității Naționale de Muzică din București
Keywords: postal censorship; Securitate; Anna Lipatti;
Summary/Abstract: In a letter from 1949, Dinu Lipatti asked his mother to leave Romania and join him in Switzerland to nurse him. The Securitate (the secret police in Communist Romania) intercepted the letter and Anna Lipatti was arrested at the border. The paper presents a series of documents on Dinu Lipatti and his mother’s arrest, taken from the Securitate archives.
Journal: Musicology Today: Journal of the National University of Music Bucharest
- Issue Year: 8/2017
- Issue No: 30
- Page Range: 89-99
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English