Alexander Lipsky Collection
Collection
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The Alexander Lipsky collection, a gift from Lipsky's pupil Richard Land, MD, consists of photocopies of Dr. Land's scores to numerous works of Beethoven, Chopin and others with extensive, detailed fingerings and pedallings from Lipsky. Many of Lipsky's students praised his remarkable ability to devise comfortable and musically logical fingerings for the standard piano literature, and thus the annotated scores are of great interest. For additional information on Lipsky, expand the menus below.
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Alexander Lipsky, pianist, composer and teacher, was born in Poland in 1901. He came to the US and graduated from Columbia University. While at Columbia, Lipsky won the Clarence Barker Fellowship in 1921. He undertook further studies in Berlin where he worked with Franz Schreker in composition and Leonid Kreutzer in piano. Lipsky's name is known to many pianists for his translations into English of Hans Bischoff's notes to the latter's scholarly edition of the keyboard works of J.S. Bach, reprinted in this country by Kalmus and still available.
The collection contains scores, arranged alphabetically by composer.
See the detailed finding aid under inventories/additional information for an item-level overview of the collection.
Part of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library