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