RODOLFO LIPIZER

RODOLFO LIPIZER (Gorizia 16.1.1895 – 8.6.1974) Italian violinist, professor of music, composer, orchestra conductor. His family was from Gorizia and had ancient music traditions: his father was a good clarinet-player, his maternal grand-father, Antonio Pelizon, was a famous violinmaker, who followed the technique of Amati’s school. Rodolfo Lipizer graduated from the Conservatory “G. Verdi” in Milan, and went on to study at Vienna Musical Academy of State with M° Gottfried Feist, obtaining the best marks. At Vienna Academy he also studied composition with Prof. Mandyczewski and Marx as well as orchestra conducting with Prof. Franz Schalk; at the same time he attended the Faculty of Philosophy at Vienna University. He started his violin career since very young as soloist as well as chamber music formations. In 1927 he won the competition to become permanent conductor of Abbazia Symphony Orchestra. Between 1930 and 1961 he was the Director of Gorizia town School of Music and the founder of Gorizia Symphony Orchestra which he conducted with the cooperation of famous soloists of the time as Pina Carmirelli, Gioconda De Vito, Carlo Vidusso, Aldo Priano, Nino Rossi, Jan Kubelik, Marcel Tyberg, Ornella Orlandini, Alessandro Costantinides, Giannino Carpi, Silvano Massoni and many others. For thirteen years (until he died) be was the President of the “C.A. Seghizzi” International Choir Singing Competition as well as of other competitions. He was also the trustee of the National Music Trust and of the Academy of present-day Music. He particularly devoted himself to teaching and didactics trying to find out helpful and more modern solutions to the various technical problems of violin music. To his artistic training deriving from the Italian-Viennese schools, he was able to add his own creative nature experience. Thanks to all that he was able to compose main violin works, even grater than those of the school leaders O. Šev c ík and C. Flesch. Compositions and works The higher technique of the violin(Ed. Ricordi ER 2602) The art and the technique of vibrato on the violin and viola The vibrato technique on double stops The basic violin techniques Revision of the J.S. Bach Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin Technical studies: thirds, fourths, sixths, octaves and changes of position Lyrical interludes on verses of Heinrich Heine (translated by Ervino Pocar) Orchestral comment for the rappresentation of “Agamennone” by Eschilo M. Button – R. Lipizer – “Ave Maria” for soprano, choir and organ Robert Schumann – R. Lipizer, “Canzone della sera” per Archi A. Lasciac – R. Lipizer, “Madone di Mont Sant” (Madonna di Monte Santo)for choir andorgan “Mattinata” for male choir and orchestra Orchestration of compositions by various authors : NicolaPorpora-Corti, Hugo Wolf, E. Escher, F.J. Gossec, Cesare Augusto Seghizzi, V. Veneziani and others. Villotte friulian Bibliography Freiherrn von Lütgendorff Willibald Leo, Die Geigen und Lautenmacher von Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart , Ed. Heinrich von Keller, Frankfurt am Main, 1904 Municipio di Gorizia, L’Insegnamento Musicale a Gorizia e l’Istituto Comunale di Musica , Stab. Tip. Giovanni Paternolli, Gorizia, 1931 D’Agostino E., Professionisti ed Artisti del Friuli Venezia Giulia , Editoriale F.I.T., TO, 1935 Il Circolo di Cultura dei professionisti e artisti di Gorizia , Tip. Sociale, Gorizia, 1938 Cossàr Ranieri Mario, Vecchia Liuteria Goriziana , edito a cura dell’Istituto per il Promovimento delle Industrie e dell’Artigianato in Gorizia, 1939 Bozzi Carlo Luigi, Istituto Comunale di Musica, Relazione del primo decennio di attività e cronache delle musiche sinfoniche eseguite a Gorizia dal 1924 al 1940 , Stab. Tip. Giovanni Paternolli, Gorizia, 1940 De Anna Plinio, Analisi e guida allo studio della 2. parte della Tecnica superiore del violino di Rodolfo Lipizer ( according to the criteria outlined by the author ) , Stab.Tip .L. Lucchesi, Gorizia, 1941 Enciclopedia della Musica e dei Musicisti , Ed. Musicale Giuliana, Trieste E. Lodati – A. Cattalini, Un secolo di storia del Circolo di lettura e della musica di Gorizia , Gorizia, 1974 Freiherr von Horn Alfred, Violinpädagogik in Utopia , Würzburg, 1974 Enciclopedia Monografica del Friuli Venezia Giulia, La storia e la cultura , (Vol. III, tomo III, pag. 2177), Arti Grafiche Friulane, Udine, 1980 Freiherr von Horn Alfred, Tips für Geiger , Würzburg, 1981 Bratuž A., Lipizer Rodolfo , a cura di M. Jevnikar, Goriska Mohorjeva Druzba, in Primorski Slovenski Biografski Leksikon,, (Vol. IX, pag. 294). Gorizia, 1983 The Strad, Rodolfo Lipizer – La tecnica superiore del violino , edited by Rok Klopčič, London, february, 1983 Freiherr von Horn Alfred, Ergänzungsblätter zu Tips für Geiger , Würzburg, 1984 DEUMM – Dizionario Enciclopedico Universale della Musica e dei Musicisti , (Vol. IV, pag. 419), Ed. UTET, Torino, 1986 Borgo A., Premio Rodolfo Lipizer , Muzsika, Budapest, 1/1986 Slovenski glasbeni dnevi, Vidiki sobodne glasbene vzgoje/Slowenische Musiktage 1987, Rodolfo Lipizer in njegova dela La tecnica superiore del violino in Vibrato zapouk violine in njihov pomen/ Seine Werke und ihre Bedeutung für den Violinunterricht , edited by Rok Klopčič, Ljubljana, 1987 AA.VV., Le arti a Gorizia nel secondo ‘900 , Centro Friulano Arti Plastiche, Udine, 1987 Societât Filologjche Furlane, Friûl di soreli jevât , 66° Congres, Arti Grafiche Campestrini, Gorizia, 1989 Bozzi Paolo, Fisica ingenua , Garzanti, Milano, 1990-1998 International Violin Meeting (1983-1984-1985-1986-1987), Minutes edited by Gianni Drascek, Gioiosa Editrice, Sannicandro Garganico, 1991 Klopčič Rok, Giuseppe Tartini, MM Slovenja, Ljubljana, 1992 International Violin Meeting (1988-1989-1990), Minutes edited by Gianni Drascek, Edizioni Santabarbara, Bellona, 1994 Threeyearly International Lutery Meeting (1984-1987-1990), Minutes edited by Gianni Drascek, Edizioni Santabarbara, Bellona, 1994 Rodolfo Lipizer – Testimonianze , edited by Elena Lipizer, Edizioni della Laguna, Monfalcone, 1996 Bozzi Paolo, Rodolfo Lipizer nei miei ricordi , Edizioni Studio Tesi, Pordenone, 1997 Lipizer Rodolfo , on Dizionario Biografico Friulano, Ribis, Udine, 1997 Alessandro Arbo, Musicisti di frontiera – Le attività musicali a Gorizia dal Medioevo al Novecento – Monografie Storiche Goriziane 1 , Edizioni della Laguna, Monfalcone, 1998 International Violin Meeting (1999) Johann Paul von Westhoff autore prebachiano – Minutes edited by Gianni Drascek – musical consultancy of Elena Lipizer, Edizioni Santabarbara, Bellona, 1999 Cossàr Ranieri Mario, Vecchia liuteria goriziana – Ancient Luthier’s craft in Gorizia, La famiglia Pelizon- The Pelizon family , 1939, presentation of Lorenzo Qualli – introduction of I. 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Bach – Minutes edited by Gianni Drascek – musical consultancy of Elena Lipizer, Edizioni Santabarbara, Bellona, 2007 AA.VV., Il Polifonico goriziano di C. Seghizzi , UTE, Gorizia, 2009 International Violin Meeting (2001-2002) Minutes edited by Gianni Drascek – musical consultancy of Elena Lipizer, Edizioni della Laguna, Mariano (GO), 2010 International Violin Meeting (1995) Minutes edited by Gianni Drascek – musical consultancy of Elena Lipizer, Edizioni della Laguna, Mariano (GO), 2010 Home Page