Ivan Lipaev

[2] Lipaev was born on 16 May 1865 in the village of Spiridonovka, Bobrovskaya Volost, Samarsky Uyezd, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire.

[4] The quartet became very popular and toured widely; its repertoire consisted mostly of Russian folk songs and operatic arias.

After the turn of the century some members of the quartet moved on, and trumpeter Vassily Brandt joined; Lipaev remained in it until around 1912.

[6] 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.

[2] After that journal ceased publication in 1910 he founded a new one called Orkestr (Оркестр), which described and analyzed the lives of ordinary orchestral musicians; it lasted until 1912.