Marie Lipsius
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of Study published by Breitkopf & Härtel published, were often published at the time and convey, in addition to the historical content, an authentic picture of the society of their epoch.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
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Musical study heads , 5 vols., Leipzig 1868–1882:
- Hector Berlioz . 5th edition. Leipzig 1913.
- Joseph Haydn . 5th edition. Leipzig 1913.
- Adolf Henselt . 9th edition. Leipzig 1919.
- Edvard Grieg . 9th edition. Leipzig 1919.
- Franz Schubert . 12th edition. Leipzig 1919.
- Johann Sebastian Bach . 7th edition. Leipzig 1919.
- Johannes Brahms . Leipzig 1919.
- Richard Wagner . 12th edition. Leipzig 1919.
- Robert Schumann . 12th edition. Leipzig 1919.
- Anton Rubinstein . 9th edition. Leipzig 1920.
- Carl Maria von Weber . 12th edition. Leipzig 1920.
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . 12th edition. Leipzig 1920.
- Franz Liszt . 13th edition. Leipzig 1920.
- George Frideric Handel . 6-7 Edition. Leipzig 1921.
- Hans von Bülow . 9-10 Edition. Leipzig 1921.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . 8th-9th Edition. Leipzig 1922.
- Christoph Willibald Gluck . 6-7 Edition. Leipzig 1923.
- Ludwig van Beethoven . 10-12 Edition. Leipzig 1923.
- Friedrich Chopin . 4th edition. Leipzig 1924.
- Classical and romantic from the world of sound . Leipzig 1892.
- Beethoven's immortal lover. The secret of Countess Brunswik and her memoirs . Leipzig 1909.
- Liszt and the women . Leipzig 1911.
- Beethoven and the Brunsviks. Based on family papers from Therese Brunsvik's estate . Leipzig 1920.
- On the threshold of the afterlife. Last memories of Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, Liszt's friend . Leipzig 1925.
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
- Marie Lipsius: Through music and life in the service of the ideal . 2 volumes. Leipzig 1917; Autobiography.
- Entry in the German Biographical Encyclopedia
- Entry into music, past and present . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1949-86, Volume 8, pp. 932-34.
Web links
- Literature by and about Marie Lipsius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Marie Lipsius in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Maria Lipsius alias La Mara in the Internet Archive
- Marie Lipsius biography on the website of the city of Leipzig
Individual evidence
- ↑ "I became convinced that ... Josephine widowed Countess Deym was Beethoven's 'immortal lover' ..." (La Mara 1920, p. 1.)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lipsius, Marie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lipsius, Ida Marie; La Mara |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and music historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1837 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1927 |
Place of death | Smooching |