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He was born in Radzyń . In 1810 he became the leader and later the conductor of the opera orchestra at Lwów (now Lviv , Ukraine ). In 1817 he went to Italy in the hope of hearing Niccolo Paganini . The two met in Milan , and even performed two concerts together in April 1818. Paganini dedicated his Op. 10 to Lipinski. In 1818 he returned to Germany and received instructions from Dr Mazzurana, a very elderly former pupil of Giuseppe Tartini . In 1820 he travelled to Berlin where he met Louis Spohr . In 1829 he again met Paganini in Warsaw, but they developed a rivalry which destroyed their friendship. In 1835-36 he went on a long tour, during which in Leipzig he met Robert Schumann . Schumann was so impressed that, as well as describing Lipinski as the greatest violinist of his age, he dedicated ''" Carnaval "'', Op.9 to him. In 1836 he visited England and played his ''Military Concerto''. From 1839 on he was concertmaster of the Royal Oratory in Dresden . He ceased touring as a virtuoso, but concentrated on chamber music, with a special devotion to the string quartets of Beethoven . Here he also gave a joint recital with Liszt , performing Beethoven's ''Kreutzer'' Sonata. He developed a great reputation as the only serious rival to Paganini. He died in Lwów. He was the owner of a Stradivarius violin that became known as the Lipinski Stradivarius . His compositions, now forgotten, included four violin concertos, as well as studies, polonaises, rondos, variations, capriccios. His adaptation, with some of his own original music interpolated, of Kauer's ''Donauweibchen'' was played every season at Lwow for nearly thirty years from 1814, but the music is now lost. The Karol Lipinski University of Music in Wrocław , Poland was named after him. |
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