II Queen Elisabeth Music Competition

The second edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, then known as Eugène Ysaÿe Competition, took place in Brussels from May 15 - May 31, 1938, and was the inaugural edition of its piano competition. It was won by Emil Gilels, whose sister Elizabeth had been awarded the 6th prize the previous year.

Jean Absil composed his Piano Concerto op.30 for the competition.

A third edition devoted to orchestral conducting was scheduled for the following year, but due to the outbreak of World War II the competition's third edition didn't take place until 1951. Eventually, no conducting competition has taken place to date.

Palmares

	Winner
1st Prize	Emil Gilels
2nd Prize	Mary Johnstone (Moura Lympany)
3rd Prize	Jakov Flier
4th Prize	Lance Dossor
5th Prize	Nivea Marino-Bellini
6th Prize	Robert Riefling
7th Prize	Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
8th Prize	André Dumortier
9th Prize	Rose Schmidt
10th Prize	Monique Yver de la Bruchollerie
11th Prize	Marcella Barzetti
12th prize	Colette Gaveau

Other competitors

• Nikita Magaloff
• Maurice Ohana

Jury

• Vytautas Bacevicius
• Samuil Feinberg
• Arthur Bliss
• Robert Casadesus
• Marcel Ciampi
• Jean Doyen
• Arne van Erpekum Sem
• Paul Frenkel
• Émile Frey
• Ignaz Friedman
• Walter Gieseking
• Siegfried Grundeis
• Bernard Heinze
• Léon Jongen
• Raoul Koczalski
• Artur Lemba
• Marcel Maas
• Carlo Van Neste
• Nikolay Orlov
• Pierre Petrides
• Jekabs Poruks
• Arthur Rubinstein
• Walter Rummel
• Emil von Sauer
• Victor Schiøler
• Andrei Stoyanov
• Olof Wibergh

References

• [1] Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
• [2] Thierry Bouckaert, Le rêve d'Élisabeth. Pages 33–37