Karol Lipiński

Karol Lipiński

Karol Józef Lipiński (October 30, 1790 – December 16, 1861) was a Polish virtuoso violinist and composer.

Life

Lipiński was born in Radzyń Podlaski. In 1810 he became the first violin and two years later the conductor of the opera orchestra at Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). In 1817 he went to Italy in the hope of hearing Niccolò Paganini. The two met in Milan, met daily to play, and even performed two concerts together in April 1818, which added immensely to Lipinski's reputation. Paganini dedicated his "Burlesque Variations on "La Carnaval de Venise", Op. 10 for unaccompanied violin to Lipinski. Later, in 1827, Lipinski returned the honour by dedicating his "Three Caprices for Violin" to Paganini.

In 1818 on his return to Germany he stopped in Trieste to receive instruction from Dr Mazzurana, a very elderly former pupil of Giuseppe Tartini; Mazzurana was ninety years old, and could no longer play himself, but gave his criticism of Lipinski's performance of one of Tartini's sonatas.

In 1820 he travelled to Berlin where he met Louis Spohr, and to Russia. In 1829 he went to Warsaw, and played a series of concerts with Paganini that summer that were attended by the nineteen-year-old Frédéric Chopin. However, a rivalry developed between Lipinski and Paganini which destroyed their friendship. Thereafter, whenever Paganini was asked who the greatest violinist was, he would say "I don't know who the greatest is, but Lipinski is certainly the second greatest".

In 1835-36 he went on a long tour, during which in Leipzig he met Robert Schumann. Schumann was so impressed that he dedicated "Carnaval", Op.9 to him.

In 1836 he visited England and played his "Military Concerto" with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In June 1839 Lipinski received a double appointment in Dresden, as concertmaster of the Royal Oratory and capellmeister at the court chapel. [ [http://www.musikerbriefe.at/content_e2.htm A letter to his wife of 2 July 1839 (Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek)] .] With his Dresden duties he ceased touring as a virtuoso, but concentrated on chamber music, with a special devotion to the string quartets of Beethoven. Here he also gave a joint recital with Liszt, performing Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata.

He developed a great reputation as the only serious rival to Paganini. Wieniawski dedicated to him his "Polonaise Brilliant" in D. He retired with a pension in 1861, and died in Lwów.

He was the owner of two violins, one by Antonio Stradivarius and another by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. Both instruments are referred to as the ex. "Lipinski".

His compositions, long forgotten but now beginning to be recorded, included four violin concertos [A fifth is lost.] , as well as studies, polonaises, rondos, variations, capriccios. He wrote three symphonies. His adaptation, with some of his own original music interpolated, of Ferdinand Kauer's "Donauweibchen" was played every season at Lwow for nearly thirty years from 1814, but the music is now lost.

The Karol Lipinski University of Music in Wrocław, Poland was named after him.

ee also

*List of Poles

Notes


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