Rodolfo Lipizer
Rodolfo Lipizer (born January 16, 1895 in Gorizia ; † June 8, 1974 ) was an Italian violinist , composer , conductor and university professor .
The international violin competition "Rodolfo Lipizer Prize", which has been held or awarded annually in Gorizia since 1982, is named after him.
Lipizer came from a long-established family of musicians. After graduating from high school, he attended the music school in Gorizia, an offshoot of the Trieste Conservatory, and continued his musical training in Vienna.
There he attended the State University of Music for seven years, first in the violin class of Hugo von Steiner and later in that of Gottfried Feist, a student of Otakar Ševčík .
At the same time he heard lectures at the Philosophical Faculty and on music at the University of Vienna from Professor Guido Adler , one of the founders of historical musicology . He completed his musical training with distinction.
Returning to Italy at the end of the First World War, he had to repeat his violin diploma at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan .
In 1921 he went back to Vienna to attend violin courses and composition studies with Joseph Rupert, Rudolf Marx (1882–1964) and Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857–1929), the latter a good friend of Johannes Brahms , and with Franz Schalk (1863–1931) , a student of Anton Bruckner .
He then began his career as a soloist and chamber musician. In 1927 he won the competition for the position of director of the Abbazia Symphony Orchestra , where he conducted 28 concerts. From 1930 in 1961 he was director of the Municipal Music School and founder of the Gorizia Symphony Orchestra , working with celebrated soloists such as: Pina Carmirelli , Gioconda De Vito, Albertina Ferrari, Charles Vidusso, Aldo Priano, Nino Rossi, Jan Kubelík , Ornella Orlandini, Alexander Costantinides, Giannino Carpi, Margit Spirk, Silvano Freemaurer, Ezio Dal Pino, Ludwig Hoelscher and others.
For thirteen consecutive years until his death he was President of the International Competition of Choral Music Augustus Caesar Seghizzi in Gorizia and directed several other competitions. He was also a trustee of the National Association of Musicians and the Academy of Contemporary Music . He dedicated himself with particular passion to teaching and technical as well as interpretation questions of the violin.
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| SURNAME | Lipizer, Rodolfo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian violinist, composer, conductor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gorizia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1974 |