Rodolfo Lipizer

Lipizer ( born January 16, 1895 in Gorizia, † June 8, 1974 ) was an Italian violinist, composer, conductor and university professor.

Named after him is the annually held in Gorizia and has been awarded since 1982 International Violin Competition " Lipizer price ".

Lipizer came from a long-established family of musicians. After high school he attended the music school in Gorizia, an offshoot of the Trieste Conservatory, and continued his musical education in Vienna on.

There he attended for seven years, the Royal Academy of Music, first in the violin class of Hugo Steiner and later in the Gottfried Feist, a pupil of Otakar Sevcik.

At the same time he attended lectures at the Faculty of Arts and Music at the University of Vienna by Professor Guido Adler, one of the founders of historical musicology. He completed his musical education with distinction.

After Italy at the end of World War I returned, he had to repeat in Milan his violin diploma at the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi.

In 1921 he went to Vienna to attend courses for violin and composition with Joseph Rupert Rudolf Marx ( 1882-1964 ) and Eusebius Mandyczewski ( 1857-1929 ), the latter a good friend of Johannes Brahms, and Franz Schalk ( 1863-1931 ), a student of Anton Bruckner.

Then he began his career as a soloist and chamber musician. In 1927 he won the competition for the post of director of the Symphony Orchestra of Abbazia, where he conducted 28 concerts. From 1930 to 1961 he was director of the Municipal School of Music and founder of the Symphony Orchestra in Gorizia and has worked with acclaimed soloists such as: Pina Carmirelli, Gioconda De Vito, Albertina Ferrari, Charles Vidusso, Aldo Priano, Nino Rossi Jan Kubelik, Ornella Orlandini, Alexander Costantinides, Giannino Carpi, Margit Spirk, Silvano Freemasons, 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 managed various other competitions. He was also a trustee of the National Musicians ' Association and the Academy of Contemporary Music. He devoted himself with particular passion of teaching and technical as Interpretionsfragen the violin.