DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

740 LIPSIUS LISZT
Mendelssohn's settlement there ; and there he
made the acqnaintance of Schumann, which
resulted in the dedication to him of the
' Carneval ' (op. 9) which was composed in
1834. In 1836 he visited England and played
his military concerto at the Philharmonic Concert
of Ajiril 25. In 1839 Lipinski became
concertmeister at Dresden, where he entirely
reorganised the royal chapel, thus doing very
much the same service to Dresden that Hellmesberger
subsequently did to Vienna. He
retired with a pension in 1861, and died on
Dec. 16, of sudden paralysis of the lungs, at
Orlow, his country house near Lemberg.
His compositions (now forgotten) are numer-
ous, and his concertos, fantasias, and variations
arc valuable contributions to violin music. One
of the best Ifuowii was the ' Military Concerto,'
which for years was much played, and was the
object of the ambition of many a student of
the violin. In conjunction with Zalewski, the
Polish poet, he edited an interesting collection
of Galician ' Volkslieder ' with pianoforte accompaniments.
F. G.
The most prominent qualities of Lipinski's
playing were a remarkably broad and powerful
tone, which he ascribed to his early studies on
the violoncello ; perfect intonation in double
stops, octaves, etc. ; and a warm enthusiastic
individuality. But the action of his right arm
and wrist was somewhat heavy. He was an
enthusiastic musician, and especially in his
later years played Beethoven's great quartets
and Bach's solos in preference to everything
else. P. D.
LIPSIUS, Marie (known under the pseu-
donym '
La
Maea '), was born at Leipzig, Dec.
30, 1837, a member of a family of remarkable
literary attainment ; she has devoted her life
to the literature of music. Her works consist
of the following : — Musikalische Stiidienkopfe
(five volumes, 1868-82, of which the first series
went through nine editions) ; Musikalische
Gedmiken-PolypJimiie (1873), a collection of
musicians' sayings about their art ; Beethoven
(2nded. 1873); DasBiihnenfestspielinBayreuth
(1877) ; a translation of Liszt's Chopin (1880) ;
Masikerbriefe aiis funf Jahrhunderten (l886) ;
Klassisclies und Bomantisches aus der Tonwelt
(1892) ; and many other books of value. She
has edited several collections of letters, such
as Liszt's correspondence from 1828 to 1886
(translated into Euglish by Constance Bache,
and issued with some additional letters, in
1894) ; three volumes of letters to Liszt from
various contemporaries (1893-1904) ; the correspondence
between Liszt and Von Biilow (1898);
and Berlioz's letters to the Princess Karolyne
zu Sayn - Wittgenstein (1903). (Riemann's
Zexikon.) M.
LISOHEN ET FEITZCHEN". An operetta
in one act ; words by Paul Dubois, music by
Oifenbach. Produced at Ems ; and reproduced
at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, Jan. 5, 1864 ;
in London (French), at St. James's, June 2,
1868.
G.
LISLEY, John, contributed a six-part madrigal—
' Faire Citharea presents hir doves '—to
' The Trinmphes of Oriana,' 1601, but no other
composition by him has survived, nor is anything
known of his biography. w. H. H.
LISZT, Franz (Ferenoz), was born Oct. 22,
1811, at Raiding in Hungary, and was the son
of Adam Liszt, [a steward in the service of
Prince Esterhazy] and a musical amateur of
sufficient attainment to instruct his son in the
rudiments of pianoforte-pjlaying. At the age of
nine young Liszt made his first appearance in
public at Oedenburg with such success that
several Hungarian noblemen guaranteed him
sufficient means to continue his studies for six
years. For that purpose he went to Vienna,
where, at his first pjublic appearance, Jan. 1,
1823, his genius was acknowledged with an
enthusiasm in which the whole musical republic,
from Beethoven dowm to the obscurest
dilettante, joined unanimously. He took lessons
from Czerny on the pianoforte and from Salieri
and Randhartinger in composition. The latter
introduced the lad to his friend Franz Schubert.
His first appearance in print was probably in a
variation (the 24th) on a waltz of Diabelli's,
one of fifty contributed by the most eminent
artists of the day, for which Beethoven, wdien
asked for a single variation, wrote thirty-three
(op. 120). The collection was published in
June 1823 (see Vaterlandische Kunstlerverein).
In the same year he proceeded to
Paris, where it was hoped that his rapidly
growing reputation would gain him admission
to the Conservatoire in spite of his foreign
origin. But Cherubini refused to make an
exception in his favour, and he continued his