Brody, Elaine.

Alexander Lipsky was an influential teacher as well as composer and arranger born in Poland in 1901. 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 1940's, he composed concertos, songs, sonatas and pieces for piano. He also became a highly regarded teacher of music, and one of his students was Carol Moore Klooster.

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