Ivan Lipaev

Ivan Vasilievich Lipaev (, 1865–1942) was a Russian music critic, composer, writer, social advocate, pedagogue, and trombonist active in both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. He played trombone in Russia's first brass quartet starting in around 1888, and in the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra from 1893 to 1912 and from 1924–31. He was also dedicated to the modernization of music pedagogy in the Russian empire and advocated for better conditions for music students and orchestra members.

In around 1888 he was a founding member of a new brass quartet at the Bolshoi Theatre, the first such quartet in Russia. The quartet became very popular and toured widely; its repertoire consisted mostly of Russian folk songs and operatic arias.

His writing career began in around 1885; thereafter he would publish and work prodigiously in a number of publications as editor, music critic, and correspondent. In 1896 he also became correspondent for (Russian Musical Gazette, ), a position he held until 1917. He also founded two short-lived publications which he edited himself. The first, founded in 1906, was called (Musical Worker, ). He was also interested in Jewish music, was a friend of pioneering ethnomusicologist Joel Engel, and published what may have been the first scholarly examination of Klezmer music in a 1904 issue of .

In 1912 he followed Vassily Brandt to Saratov, leaving the Bolshoi and the quartet, and soon started teaching trombone and music history at the Saratov Conservatory. During his early years there he published a number of biographies of composers and musicians including Alexander Scriabin, Alexander Taneyev, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. He became a professor at the Saratov Conservatory in 1917. He left the conservatory in 1921. From 1923 to 1934 he taught Music History at various music colleges in Moscow. From 1924 onwards he also returned to playing in the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra. Arthur Nikish, orchestra director (, 1903) Wagneriana: A satellite of operas and musical dramas (, 1904) Orchestral musicians (, 1904) Finnish Music: an essay (, 1906) A. N. Skriabin (, 1913) S.V. Rakhmaninov (, 1913) S. I. Tanev: life, activity, music, works, list of compositions (, 1915) A History of music (, 1915) History of the Bolshoi theatre orchestra (, 1924) Twenty Tuba Exercises (, 1927)