Ida Marie Lipsius

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Ida Marie Lipsius (1837- 1927) was a German writer on music, known by her pseudonym, La Mara. A sister of the classical philologist Justus Hermann Lipsius, she was born in Leipzig and wrote several sketches of travel, Im Hochgbirge (1876), Sommerglück (1881), and Im Lande der Sehnsucht (1901). Her musical publications include the essays Musikalische Studienköpfe (five volumes, 1868-82; eleventh edition, 1913) and Klassisches und Romantisches aus der Tonwelt (1892); the collection of Gedanken berühmter Musiker über ihre Kunst (1876), and of editions of Liszt's letters (eight volumes, second edition, 1893-1905), of his correspondences with Von Bülow (1898) and Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxony (1908), and of Berlioz's letters to Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein (1903); and a translation into German of Liszt's Chopin (third edition, 1910). She published also Beethovens unsterbliche Geliebte: Das Geheimnis der Gräfin Brunswik und ihre Memoiren (1909); Liszt und der Frauen (1911).

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