International piano competition Ferruccio Busoni
The Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition , or Busoni Competition for short , Concorso Pianistico Internationale Ferruccio Busoni in Italian , is a piano competition that has existed since 1949 .
It was launched by Cesare Nordio, director of the “ Claudio Monteverdi Music Conservatory ” in Bolzano , in memory of Busoni on the 25th anniversary of his death. The competition took place annually until 2003, after that every two years.
history
Cesare Nordio already had experience as a member of the jury of the Vienna International Competition in 1933 and 1936. In the post-war years in the South Tyrolean capital Bolzano he wanted to create a kind of musical bridge between Italian and German culture and thus also the importance and influence of Ferruccio Honor Busonis, who practiced as an Italian artist in Germany at the beginning of the century.
Awarding
The jury is stingy when it comes to awarding a first prize , in more than half of the years no first prize was awarded, several times even for up to four years in a row. As early as 1949, the jury, which was also chaired by Jacques Février, Egon Kornauth , Nikita Magaloff , Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Gino Tagliapietra and Antonino Votto , did not award a first prize : Alfred Brendel received an honorable one at the age of 18 Fourth prize and was able to start his career with it. From 1956 to 1960, Wladimir Vogel , a student of Ferruccio Busoni, sat on the jury . Hubert Stuppner was president of the jury from 1982 to 1996 .
A later famous award winner (1957) is Martha Argerich , the nine-member jury at the time included Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Nikita Magaloff and Friedrich Wührer . Other first prize winners are Jörg Demus (1956), Michael Ponti (1964; 4th prize in 1956 and 3rd in 1958), Boris Bloch (1978), Lilya Zilberstein (1987), Alexander Kobrin (1999) and Michail Lifits (2008/9 ).
Further prizes were awarded to Karl-Heinz Schlüter (1950 2nd), Karl Engel (1951 3rd), Walter Klien (1951 3rd, 1952 4th), Ingrid Haebler (1952 4th), Günter Ludwig (1954 3rd), Ludwig Hoffmann (1957 4th), John Ogdon (1960 5th), Gernot Kahl (1963 2nd), Pascal Devoyon (1974 2nd and special prize), Terence Judd , László Simon (both 1975 3rd), Margarita Höhenrieder (1981 1st prize) .), Lev Natochenny (1981 2nd), Friedrich Höricke (1981 5th), Gülsin Onay (1982 6th, 1983 4th), Bernd Glemser (1983 5th, 1984 3rd), Matthias Fletzberger (1984 2nd) , Ian Munro , Alfredo Perl (both 1987 3rd), Igor Kamenz (1988 2nd, 1991 2nd), Konstantin Scherbakov (1989 6th), Maurizio Baglini (1994 6th), Severin von Eckardstein (1998 6th), Kiai Nara (1999 6th), Martin Stadtfeld (2001 6th) and Anna Winnizkaja (2004/5 4th), Ji-Yeong Mun (2015 1st),