Karol Lipinski - Rondo alla Polacca Op.7

Piotr Milewski / Hsieh Chia Ling // Piano & Violin arrangement by Piotr Milewski, made available at IMSLP website, under the lipinski article. Karol Lipiński (1790-1861) was a Polish Violinist and Composer. He developed a great reputation as the only serious rival to Paganini. Henryk Wieniawski dedicated his Polonaise de concert, Op.4 to Lipiński, like Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński his String Quartet No. 2, . In 1817 he went to Italy in the hope of hearing Niccolò Paganini. The two met in Milan, met daily to play, and even performed two concerts together in April 1818, which added immensely to Lipiński’s reputation. Paganini dedicated his Burlesque Variations on “La Carnaval de Venise“, Op. 10 for unaccompanied violin to Lipiński. Later, in 1827, Lipiński returned the honour by dedicating his “Three Caprices for Violin“ to Paganini. In 1818 on his return to Germany he stopped in Trieste to receive instruction from Dr Mazzurana, a very elderly former pupil of Giuseppe Tartini; Mazzurana was ninety years old, and could no longer play himself, but gave his criticism of Lipiński’s performance of one of Tartini’s sonatas. During that time, he also performed concerts together with the Polish pianist and composer Maria Agata Szymanowska. In 1820 he travelled to Berlin where he met Louis Spohr, and to Russia. In 1829 he went to Warsaw, and played a series of concerts with Paganini that summer that were attended by the nineteen-year-old Frédéric Chopin. However, a rivalry developed between Lipiński and Paganini which destroyed their friendship. Thereafter, whenever Paganini was asked who the greatest violinist was, he would say “I don’t know who the greatest is, but Lipiński is certainly the second greatest“. In Dresden he met Liszt and both played Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata. He has 4 violin concerti with a fifth being lost and also 3 symphonies, striong trios and several works for Violin Solo. There is no copyright infringement intended. If you wish your recording to be removed, it can be done, please just leave me an email, which can be found at the channel’s about section.