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The 5th edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
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 1953. It was the inaugural edition of its composition
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...

 competition.

Palmares

Winner Composition
1st Prize   Michał Spisak Serenade for Orchestra
2nd Prize   Jean-Michel Defaye  Symphonic Dances
3rd Prize   Carlo Franci Concerto for Orchestra
4th Prize   Alvin Etler
Alvin Etler
Alvin Derald Etler was an American composer and oboist.-Career:A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic, harmonically and texturally complex compositional style, taking inspiration from the works of Bartók and Copland as well as the dissonant and accented styles of...

 
Symphony
5th Prize   Matthijs Vermeulen
Matthijs Vermeulen
Matthijs Vermeulen , was a Dutch composer and music journalist.- Early life :...

 
Symphony No. 2 Prélude a la Nouvelle Journée
6th Prize   Michel Ciry Le Mystère de Jésus
7th Prize   Makoto Moroi Composition No. 1
8th Prize   Yiannis Papaioannou
Yiannis Papaioannou
Yiannis Papaioannou was a Greek composer and teacher of the Modern Era. He studied piano with Marika Laspopoulou and composition with Alekos Kontis at the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens , as well as the piano and orchestration with Emilios Riadis in Thessaloniki...

 
Symphony No. 3
9th Prize   James Cohn
James Cohn
James Cohn is an American composer born in 1928 in Newark, New Jersey. After taking violin and piano lessons in his native town, he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in Composition at Juilliard, graduating in 1950.He has written solo, chamber,...

 
Symphony No. 2
10th Prize   Luctor Ponse Symphony No. 1

Jury

    •   Jean Absil
      Jean Absil
      Jean Absil was a Belgian modernist music composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatory.- Biography :...

    •   Nadia Boulanger
      Nadia Boulanger
      Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

    •   Marcel Cuvelier (chairman)
    •   Sem Dresden
      Sem Dresden
      Samuel Dresden was born in Amsterdam, April 20, 1881, and died at The Hague, July 30, 1957). He was a Dutch conductor, composer and teacher.-Life:...

    •   Camargo Guarnieri
      Camargo Guarnieri
      Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian composer.-Name:He was registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious and subject to puns. Thus he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed...

    •   Léon Jongen
    •   Gian Francesco Malipiero
      Gian Francesco Malipiero
      Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.-Early years:Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in...

    •   Frank Martin
      Frank Martin (composer)
      Frank Martin was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.-Childhood and youth:...

    •   Aloys Mooser
    •   Andrzej Panufnik
      Andrzej Panufnik
      Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II...

    •   Marcel Poot
      Marcel Poot
      Marcel Poot was a Belgian composer, professor, and musician. His father, Jan Poot, was Director of the Vlaamse Schouwburg in Brussels....

    •   Domingo Santa Cruz
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