Marie Lipsius

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Marie Lipsius
Marie Lipsius on an engraving before 1893
Signature of Marie Lipsius alias La Mara

Ida Marie Lipsius , alias La Mara (born December 30, 1837 in Leipzig , † March 2, 1927 in Schmölen ) was a German writer and music historian .

Life

The daughter of the theologian and Rector of the Thomas School Karl Heinrich Adelbert Lipsius grew up in Leipzig and received musical training, among others from the Leipzig composer Richard Müller . In 1856, at the age of eighteen, she met Franz Liszt at a concert , to whose close circle of friends she was henceforth and whose work she accompanied literarily. At the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, she played an important role in the German music scene, especially at the Weimar court and in the circle around Richard Wagner in Bayreuth . She was in close contact with Liszt's companion, Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein . On her eightieth birthday in 1917, she was awarded the title of professor .

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In addition to some travel descriptions, she published numerous monographs on old and contemporary composers as a music writer under the pseudonym La Mara , for the first time in Westermann's monthly notebooks in 1867. Her concise, nuanced portraits based on thorough knowledge of sources, each first in the series Musical Heads of Study published by Breitkopf & Härtel published, were often published at the time and convey, in addition to the historical content, an authentic picture of the society of their epoch. Its significance today is mainly due to the fact that the author knew many of those portrayed by her personally.

Marie Lipsius was the first musicologist to conduct systematic research to identify Beethoven's mysterious " Immortal Beloved ": in 1909 she published Therese Brunsvik's memoirs and interpreted the enthusiasm for the composer contained therein as a secret love. However, she corrected this view after the First World War when she found letters and other documents in the Brunsvik estate that pointed to Therese's sister Josephine Brunsvik .

Marie Lipsius also emerged as the editor of Franz Liszt's correspondence . Her autobiography was published in 1917.

Publications

As an author

As editor

  • Franz Liszt:
    • Franz Liszt's Letters , 8 vols., Leipzig 1893–1905.
    • Correspondance entre Franz Liszt et Hans von Bülow , Leipzig 1899. (French)
    • Correspondance entre Franz Liszt et Charles Alexandre (Grand-Duc de Saxe) , Leipzig 1909. (French)
    • Franz Liszt's letters to his mother. From the Frz. , Leipzig 1918.
  • Letters to August Röckel from Richard Wagner , Leipzig 1894.
  • Letters from five centuries by musicians , 2 volumes, Leipzig 1896.
  • From the heyday of the Weimar Altenburg . Pictures and letters from the life of Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein , Leipzig 1906.

literature

Web links

Commons : Marie Lipsius  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Marie Lipsius  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. "I became convinced that ... Josephine widowed Countess Deym was Beethoven's 'immortal lover' ..." (La Mara 1920, p. 1.)