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University Daily Kansan Monday, May 9, 1960
The highest of distinctions is service to others—King George VI
Jan Chiapusso to Speak on Bach
Jan Chiapusso, KU professor of piano. Thursday will give a Humanities lecture on "Bach's Philosophy of Music." His address at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall will close the 1959-60 Humanities Lecture Series.
Prof. Chiapusso has for many years interpreted Bach at the keyboard.
The lecture was postponed from January 7 because he suffered coronary thrombosis late in December, 1959.
He will retire next month after having served on the KU music faculty since 1934. He was promoted to full professor in 1939. On April 27, he and six other veteran professors were honored at the annual Retirement Dinner. He and Prof. Russell L. Wiley, director of the University band, joined the KU faculty at the same time, September, 1934.
In the summer of 1947, he and his wife, Beulah, a soprano, made a concert tour in Hawaii. On other tours also, he won high praise from critics for his recitals in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, and other American cities.
Prof. Chiapusso was widely recognized as a brilliant concert pianist for 15 years before he came to KU. In 1911, he had won the Musical Prize in Paris from a field of 36 contestants. He made a European concert tour in 1927 and played in Berlin, Paris, London, Amsterdam, and other cities in Holland, Belgium and Spain.
His recitals on the KU campus have attracted large and appreciative audiences. The University Daily Kansan on October 4, 1933, published an article written by Keaneth Postlithwaite, a student reporter, describing a Chilapus re-
"Straight - from - the - shoulder" politicians should talk from a little higher up.-Senator John F. Parker.
citital the evening before in the auditorium of Strong Hall. The article described the "packed house" that
Jan Chiapusso
clamored for encores despite the high temperature and humidity and no air conditioning. Postlethwaite wrote that "folding chairs were placed in the aisles and many persons sat in the halls outside to hear the recital."
Jan Chiapusso was born in 1850 on a small plantation near Semarang in Java, the son of an Italian civil engineer and a Dutch woman, who was the daughter of a physician. He was educated in Nymegen, Holland.
His formal music education began in 1907 in Cologne, Germany, at the Conservatory; his piano teacher was Lazzaro Uzielli, who had been a pupil of Brahms and Clara Schumann. Chiapuso also studied in Paris, Brussels, and The Hague, for a time under the tutelage of a Scottish pianist, Frederic Lamon, then famous for his interpretation of Beethoven.
In 1916 Chiapusso came to the United States and taught in a small college in Georgia and then at various private conservatories in Minneapolis, Detroit, and Toledo. He was named head of the piano department at the Bush Conservatory in Chicago in 1921 and remained there 12 years. From 1932 to 1934 he was visiting lecturer in music history at the University of Chicago and there received the B.A. degree.
The Humanities Committee each year since 1948 has selected one KU faculty member to lecture in the
annual series which includes four to eight visiting scholar lectures.
The 11 KU Humanities lecturers, in order since 1948, were Clifford Osborne, philosophy; John Hankins, English; Charles Realey, history; William Shoemaker, Spanish; Frederick Moreau, legal history; Allen Crafton, dramatics; George Anderson, history; J. Neale Carmen, French; L. R. Lind, Latin and Greek; M. Carl Slough, legal history; William Paden, English.
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