VI Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
Encyclopedia
The sixth edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
took place in 1956 and was the third one devoted to violin
. The Soviet
violin school couldn't attain a third victory after the successes of David Oistrakh
in 1937 and Leonid Kogan in 1951 as Berl Senofsky
managed to beat Julian Sitkovetsky
. Senofsky remains the only American who has won the violin competition to date.
Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
The Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, a founding member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions has been, since its foundation, considered the world over to be one of the most prestigious and most difficult. It is devoted to violin , piano , to composition and to singing...
took place in 1956 and was the third one devoted to violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
. The Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
violin school couldn't attain a third victory after the successes of David Oistrakh
David Oistrakh
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....
in 1937 and Leonid Kogan in 1951 as Berl Senofsky
Berl Senofsky
Berl Senofsky was a violinist of the twentieth century.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Russian immigrant violinists. He received his first music lessons from his father at the age of three. By the time he was six he had won a scholarship to study with Louis Persinger, a...
managed to beat Julian Sitkovetsky
Julian Sitkovetsky
Julian Sitkovetsky was a Russian-Ukrainian violinist.-Biography:Sitkovetsky was born in Kiev. He started violin lesson at age 4, first with his father, then with David Bertie at the Central School in Kiev. As a child prodigy, he was chosen to play for Jacques Thibaud at age 8...
. Senofsky remains the only American who has won the violin competition to date.
Palmares
| Winner | |
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| 1st Prize |  Berl SenofskyBerl Senofsky Berl Senofsky was a violinist of the twentieth century.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Russian immigrant violinists. He received his first music lessons from his father at the age of three. By the time he was six he had won a scholarship to study with Louis Persinger, a... |
| 2nd Prize |  Julian SitkovetskyJulian Sitkovetsky Julian Sitkovetsky was a Russian-Ukrainian violinist.-Biography:Sitkovetsky was born in Kiev. He started violin lesson at age 4, first with his father, then with David Bertie at the Central School in Kiev. As a child prodigy, he was chosen to play for Jacques Thibaud at age 8... |
| 3rd Prize |  Pierre Doukan |
| 4th Prize | Francine Dorfeuille-Boussinot |
| 5th Prize | Viktor Pikaizen |
| 6th Prize |  Alberto LysyAlberto Lysy Alberto Lysy was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor.-Life and work:Alberto Lysy was born in Buenos Aires to Ukrainian immigrants in 1935. At age five, his father introduced him to the violin. Lysy left school at age 13 to devote more time to the instrument, and was subsequently... |
| 7th Prize | Marina Iashvili |
| 8th Prize |  Tessa Robbins |
| 9th Prize |  Luben Yordanoff |
| 10th Prize |  Clemens Quataker |
| 11th Prize | Igor Politkovsky |
| 12th Prize |  Marcel Debot |
Jury
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Necil Kazim AksesNecil Kazim AksesNecil Kazım Akses was a Turkish classical composer.-Life:Akses studied music and composition in Vienna with Joseph Marx and in Prague with Josef Suk and Alois Hába... - Yvonne Astruc
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Oskar Back - Marcel Cuvelier (chairman)
- Désiré DefauwDésiré DefauwDésiré Defauw was a Belgian conductor and violinist.He was professor of conducting at the Brussels Conservatory and was the first conductor of the Orchestre National de Belgique from 1937...
- Zino FrancescattiZino FrancescattiRené-Charles "Zino" Francescatti was a French virtuoso violinist.Zino Francescatti was born in Marseilles, to a musical family. Both parents were violinists. His father, who also played the cello, had studied with Camillo Sivori. Zino studied violin from age three and was quickly recognized as a...
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Sadanori Maki - Yehudi MenuhinYehudi MenuhinYehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
- Philip Newman
- Ricardo Odnoposoff
- David OistrakhDavid OistrakhDavid Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....
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Alfred Pochon - Maurice Raskin
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