Isabel Lippitz

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Isabel Lippitz (* 1946 ) is a German concert singer (lyric coloratura soprano) and retired professor for singing at the University of Siegen (subject music).

Isabel Lippitz
Isabel Lippitz

life and work

Isabel Lippitz grew up in Osnabrück as the daughter of the orchestral musician (horn) Heinrich Lübke. After studying at the PH Osnabrück (C exam as an organist

Isabel Lippitz
Isabel Lippitz

and choirmaster at KMD Traugott Timme), in 1972 she passed the second teaching examination as a primary school teacher in Bramsche. This was followed by singing studies at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold with Prof. Theo Lindenbaum and Günther Weißenborn (song design), she was a member of the opera school. In 1976 she passed the artistic matriculation examination and the state music teacher examination for singing. In 1975 and 1977 she was a soprano in the Bayreuth Festival Choir, after which she joined the radio choir of the WDR in Cologne. After initially accepting a teaching position for singing at the University of Siegen in 1976 , she was offered the position of singing lecturer there in 1982. After retiring in 2007, she taught here as part of a teaching assignment until 2019.

Since 2013 she has been writing reviews and reports as a freelancer for the Siegener Zeitung : including classical and contemporary music, art.

Isabel Lippitz has been married to Wilfried Lippitz since 1970 and lives in Siegen. They have two sons.

Concert activity

repertoire

Numerous oratorios, masses, cantatas, arias and approx. 800 piano and guitar songs from 5 centuries.

World premieres

Solo participation in works by Helmut Barbe , Luciano Berio , Herbert Callhoff , Mauricio Kagel , Fanny Hensel , Kurt Hessenberg , Wolfgang Hildemann , Hanno Hussong, Bert Rudolf , Burghard Schloemann , Wolfgang Stockmeier , Iannis Xenakis . Radio recordings in WDR, NDR, DLF, SWR, Israelischer Rundfunk, RAI Rome, ORF Vienna.

Woman and music

Encouraged by the church musician and conductor Elke Mascha Blankenburg , who initiated the women's movement in the field of music with the article for the EMMA “Forgotten women in music history” and founded the “ International Working Group on Women and Music ” in 1977 , Isabel Lippitz kept herself busy from 1978 onwards on the topic. For two years she kept the working group's archive. In numerous recitals, later also in lectures and in lessons, she presented works by female composers, together with her sister Sigird Jacobi (piano), the pianist and composer Barbara Heller , with Viola Mokrosch (piano) and with Sabine Giesbrecht (music education, university Osnabrück). In addition, numerous world premiere recordings are due to her, including works by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel , all songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and song CDs by Clara Wieck-Schumann .

Discography

  • 1978: Felix Mendelssohn: Sacred choral music (Schwann)
  • 1980: Luciano Berio: Coro (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 1980: Burghard Schloemann: Three angels sang (Emi Electrola DG)
  • 1981: Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach Cantatas 1 and 140 (Unna Tourist Office)
  • 1985: Georg Friedrich Händel: St. John Passion (ambitus)
  • 1989: Florent Schmitt: Psaume 47

Woman and Music (world premiere recordings)

  • 1984: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Oratorio (directed by Elke Mascha Blankenburg ), CPO
  • 1985: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Lieder op. 1, 7, 9, 10 ( Barbara Heller , piano), CPO
  • 1986: Alma Mahler-Werfel: Complete Songs ( Barbara Heller , piano), CPO
  • 1986: Johanna Kinkel (radio feature SWF): songs by the composer Johanna Kinkel (author Eva Weissweiler)
  • 1991: Clara Wieck-Schumann: Complete songs (Deborah Richards, piano), Bayer Records
  • 1993/2002: Barbara Strozzi: Il Primo Libro di Madrigali (clara records) among others with Hera Lind alias Herlind Wartenberg, Alt
  • 1995: Marianna Martinez: Psalm cantatas (Aulos Schwann), conducted by Elke Mascha Blankenburg

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personal data
SURNAME Lippitz, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert singer (lyric coloratura soprano) and university lecturer for singing
DATE OF BIRTH 1946