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. The competition is dedicated primarily to

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and

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singing, with rotating categories of voice (even numbered years), piano (odd numbered years), but also features sections for

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, chamber music,

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and

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, among others. In the fifty years since its inception, thousands of competitors have taken part, many of whom have reached international fame. They include

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, Luciano Pavarotti,

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, Joaquín Achúcarro, Daniel Barenboim,

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. The judges have included Franco Corelli, Carlo Maria Giulini,

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, Birgit Nilsson,

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, Joan Sutherland, and

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, Raina Kabaivanska.

Piano Winners

1950s

1950

*1: Jean Micault *2: Maria Teresa Garatti; Carlos Rivero Morales *3: Licia Mancini

1951

*1: Isabella Salamon *2:

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Peter Wallfisch *3: Pieralberto Biondi

1952

*1: René Pouget *2: Walter Blankenheim *3: Alexander Jenner; Andrzej Wasowski

1953

*1: Joaquín Achúcarro; Luciano Bertolini; Gabriel Tacchino *2: Monte Hill Davis; Eléonore Kraemer *3: Adriana Brugnolini ecchiato Jack Edwin Guerry

1954

*1: Yoko Kono *2: Cécile Ousset; Chiaralberta Pastorelli; Kurt Bauer; Richard Cass *3: Claudine Durussel; Marion Zarzeczna; Bruno Fabius; Alberto Neuman (Argentina); Emanuele Perrotta (Italy) *Grand Prix: Daniel Barenboim

1955

*1: Cécile Ousset *2: Alberto Colombo *3: Danièle Dechenne–Decroos;

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; Natascia Calza; Pierre Delgrange; Alain Barnheim *Finalist: Claudio Abbado

1956

*1: Robert Alexander Bohnke *2: Pier Narciso Masi; James Mathis *3: —

1957

*1: — *2: Claude Conard-Dargier; George Katz *3: Andrée Darras

1958

*1: — *2: Ivan Roy Davis Jr.; Claude Berard *3: —

1959

*1: — *2: John Perry; Irène Pamboukjian; Annick Savornin-Daru *3: Gino Brandi; Vittorio Del Col; Pierre-Yves Le Roux; Luisa De Robertis; Raffaella D’Esposito

1960s

1960

*1: Dale Bartlett *2: Eugenia Hymann Monacelli; Midori Miura *3: Bruno Pompili; Jerzy Gajek

1961

*1: Alberto Neuman *2: Giorgio Sacchetti *3: Antonio Rodríguez Baciero; Luigi Galvani

1962

*1: — *2 (Grand Prix): Lidia Rocchetti; Christian Bernard *2: Minka Royer-Routcheva; Giuliano Silveri; Alessandro Specchi *3: —

1963

*1: Franco Angeleri; Gernot Kahl *2: Paule-Françoise Bonnet; Gi-In Wang – Dag Achatz; – Ivan Darel-Kaiserman; Marco Vavolo *3: —

1964

*1: François-Joël Thiollier *2: Rafael Orozco-Flores; Lois-Carole Pachucki *3: Claude Savard

1965

*1: Joaquín Ángel Soriano Villanueva *2: Yoshiya Iwamoto; Robert Spillman (US); ormaRaquel Boldorini; Leonora Milá i Romeu; Suzanne Husson *3: Fausto Di Cesare; Vladimir Krpan

1966

*1: Jesús González Alonso; Klaus Hellwig *2: Ettore Peretti *3: Riccardo Risaliti; Kaori Kimura

1967

*1: Jacques Rouvier *2: Ettore Peretti; Catherine Collard *3: Jivko Paunov; Marie-Cécile Milan; Supitra Riensuvarn *Finalist: Jean-Louis Steuerman

1968

*1: Alexandra Ablewicz; Anna Maria Cigoli *2: Micaela Mingardo *3: Danielle De Gasquet; César Brunin Zaror; Franz-Friedrich Eichberger

1969

*1: Sergio Marengoni *2: Maryvonne Le Gallo e Saint-Pulgent César Brunin Zaror *3: Herbert Seidel; Marika Noda

1970s

1970

*1: Michael Krist *2: Yong-Hi Moon; Marina Horak *3: Carlos Cebro; Takejiro Hirai

1971

*1: Vincenzo Balzani; Hiroshi Tajika *2: Noemi Gobbi; Yaeko Sasaki; Vera Drencova *3: —

1972

*1: Dirk Joeres *2: Olivier Gardon; Bianca Bodalia *3: Claus-Christian Schuster; Ramzi Yassa – Taeko Kojima

1973

*1: — *2: Pascal Devoyon; – Csilla Schulter; Marioara Trifan *3: Emanuela Bellio; Nancy Loo

1974

*1: — *2: Anne Perchat; Pierre Laurent Aimard *3: Johannes Kropfitsch; Harumi Hanafusa

1975

*1: Arnulf Von Arnim; Edson Lopes Elias *2: Boris Bloch; Richard Fields; Elena Mouzalas *3: Jacques Gauthier; Tomoko Mizuno

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Diana K. Weekes

1976

*1: Karina Oganjan *2: Alexandre Malkus *3: Wolfram Lorenz; Svetlana Potanina

1977

*1: Erik Berchot; Ewa Pobłocka *2: Massimo Gon; Anne Robert Cambresy*3: Elvina Zeynalova

1978

*1:

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; Angela Hewitt *2: Giovanni Umberto Battel; Yovcho Margaritov Krushev (Bulgaria); Jean-Yves Thibaudet *3:

1979

*1: — *2: Liora Ziv-Li; Alain Jacquon *3: —

1980s

1980

*1: Gulzhamilija Kadyrbekova *2: Vasif Hasanov; Claudius Tanski *3: François Chouchan; Atsuko Isozaki

1981

*1: Babette Hierholzer *2: Rita Kinka *3: Mayo Yoshimura

1982

*1: — *2: Thomas Duis *3: Anne Fawaz

1983

*1: Mari Tsuda *2: — *3: Olivier Cazal; Marie-Noëlle Damien

1984

*1: Oleg Volkov *2: Pavel Zarukin *3: —

1985

*1: Mi-Joo Lee *2: Véronique Pellissero; Elisabeth Schlader *3: Nobuyuki Nagaoka

1986

*1: Eckart Heiligers *2: Peter Máté *3: Martin Zehn

1987

*1: — *2: Mats Jansson *3: Hie-Yon Choi

1988

*1: Ulrike Payer *2: Luca Rasca *3: Hisako Nagayoshi; Sylviane Pintarelly alcagno

1989

*1: Igor Kamenz *2: Sergej Yerokhin *3: Giampaolo Stuani; Roberto Corlianò

1990s

1990

*1: — *2: Choi Kyoung-Ah (Korea); Violetta Egorova *3: —

1991

*1: Andreij Sikhorskij *2: Luca Ballerini *3: Gabriele Maria Vianello; Sergeij Milchten

1992

*1: Camillo Radicke (Germany) *2: Wojciech Kocyan (Poland) *3: Maria Clementi (Italy)

1993

*1: Vadim Rudenko *2: Valeriu Rogacev *3: Mutsuko Yamamoto

1994

*1: — *2: Valeriu Rogacev *3: Cristiano Burato; Francesco Cipolletta

1995

*1: — *2: Aleksandar Serdar *3: Cristiano Burato; Etsuko Hirose

1996

*1: Eung-Joo Chung *2: Olga Pušečnikova lga Kern*3: Tamara Stefanovich; Seiko Ohtomo

1997

*1: — *2: Christian Leotta *3: Julia Bartha; Nobuhito Nakai

1998

*1: — *2: Paolo Wolfango Cremonte; Noriko Ishiguro *3: Miwako Takeda

1999

*1: Ayako Kimura *2: Alessandra Maria Ammara *3: Davide Franceschetti

2000s

2000

*1: — *2: Davide Cabassi; Jacob Leuschner *3: Dong Min Lim; Ji Yeoun You eanne You

2001

*1: Hisako Kawamura *2: Stefania Cafaro *3: Federico Gianello

2002

*1: Yeol-Eum Son *2: Ekaterina Mechetina *3: Lorenzo Di Bella

2003

*1: Hyo-Sun Lim *2: Akiko Nikami *3: Jun Nakao

2004

*1: Feodor Amirov *2: — *3: —

2005

*1: Mizuka Kano artmann *2: Yuko Mine llinger*3: Boris Feiner

2007

*1: Martina Filjak *2: Sergej Artsibashev *3: Cathal Breslin

2009

*1: — *2: Stefan Ciric *3: Christian Chamorel

2010s

2011

*1: Alexey Lebedev *2: Illiya Zuyko *3:

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2013

*1: Jonathan Fournel *2: — *3: Alexey Sychev; Alexander Panfilov

2015

*1: Ilya Maximov *2: Maxim Kinasov *3: Alexander Bernstein

2017

*1: Konstantin Emelyanov *2: Shiori Kuwahara; Aristo Sham

2019

*1: Ziyu Liu *2: Hans H. Suh *3: Yilan Zhao

References

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