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, Op.40. He retired with a pension in 1861, and died in village Virliv (Ternopil region, Ukraine). He was the owner of two violins, one made in 1715 by Antonio Stradivari and another by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù. Both instruments are referred to as "ex-Lipinski". The Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, Poland was named after him. Compositions Early in his life, during his assignment at Lviv theatre, Lipiński composed 3 symphonies (Op. 2) and 3 operas: Kłótnia przez zakład, Terefere w Tarapacie, and Syrena Dniestru. The last one is an adaptation, with some of his own original music interpolated, of Ferdinand Kauer's Donauweibchen and was played every season at Lviv for nearly thirty years from 1814, but the music is now lost. Naturally, most of Lipiński's compositions are for violin. These include four violin concertos (a fifth is lost), two string trios (originally for an ensemble 2 violins and a cello) as well as polonaises, rondos, variations, capriccios. He also composed several songs and harmonized some popular Polish tunes. Recordings His compositions have been recorded among others by Polish virtuoso violinist Konstanty Andrzej Kulka of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Of the major works, all the concertos, both trios, a symphony and an overture have been recorded, some of them more than one time. Notes Further reading Henryka Filatowna. K.J. Lipiński, Wirtuozi i kompozytor. Kraków dissertation, 1930 (unpublished) . Karol Lipiński. Kraków: PWM, 1970 Translation by Maria Lewicka: Lipiński. Neptune City, NJ: Paganiniana, 1986 Владимир Юрьевич Григорьев. Кароль Липиньский. Москва: Музыка, 1977 Karol Lipiński: Życie, działalność, epoka. T. 1–4. Ed. by et al. Wrocław: Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Lipińskiego, 1990, 1993, 2003, 2007 External links Scores by Karol Lipiński in digital library Polona 1790 births 1861 deaths People from Radzyń Podlaski 19th-century classical composers 19th-century classical violinists Male classical violinists 19th-century conductors (music) Polish classical violinists Polish conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Polish male classical composers Polish Romantic composers