Alexander Lipsky was an influential teacher as well as composer and arranger born in Warsaw, Poland in 1900. He attended Columbia University and studied composition and theory with Daniel Gregory Mason, Frank Ward and Franz Schreker. He was a student of piano under the tutelage of Leonid Kreutzer. In 1921, he was awarded the Clarence Barker Fellowship at Columbia through which he studied in Berlin from 1922-1924. Up through the 1940s, he composed concertos, songs, sonatas and pieces for piano. He also became a highly regarded teacher of music with notable students such as Carol Klooster-Moore[1] and Matthew Harre.[2] He died in 1985.

References

  1. ↑ "The Fales Library guide to the Brody/Klooster Performance Practice Collection". Archived from the original on 2009-11-20. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  2. ↑ Nancy Williams, Reflections on a Grand Passion: A Piano Teacher Takes Adult Piano Lessons


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