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
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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