All-Union Conductors Competition
Soviet conducting competition
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The All-Union Conductors Competition was a competition among musical conductors in the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1988. It took place in Moscow for its first time in 1938 when a set of prizes was awarded by a jury chaired by Samuil Samosud and including Nikolai Myaskovsky, Heinrich Neuhaus, Alexander Goldenweiser, Aleksandr Gauk, Dmitri Kabalevsky amongst other relevant musicians.[1] From 1966 to 1988, the competition took place regularly averaging about one event per five years.
Awarded list
1938: I edition
- Yevgeny Mravinsky (first prize)[2]
- Natan Rakhlin (second prize) [3]
- Alexander Melik-Pashayev (second prize)[3]
- Konstantin Ivanov (third prize)[3]
- Marcos Paverman (fourth prize)[3]
- Kiril Kondrashin (diploma)[4]
1966: II edition
- Yuri Temirkanov (first prize)[5]
- Aleksandr Dmitriyev[3]
- Fuat Mansurov[3]
- Yuri Simonov[3][6]
- Daniel Tyulin[3]
- Maxim Shostakovich[3][7]
1971: III edition
- Alexander Lazarev[3][8]
- Waldemar Nelson[3]
