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, Aleksandr Goldenweiser, Aleksandr Gauk, Dmitri Kabalevsky amongst other relevant musicians. 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)Gregor Tassie: Yevgeny Mravinsky: The Noble Conductor (chronology, page VI), Scarecrow Press - An imprint of Rowman and Littlefield (2005), • eBook Natan Rakhlin (second prize) Alexander Melik-Pashayev (second prize) Konstantin Ivanov (third prize) Marcos Paverman (fourth prize) Kiril Kondrashin (diploma)
1966: II edition Yuri Temirkanov (first prize) Aleksandr Dmitriyev Fuat Mansurov Yuri Simonov Daniel Tyulin Maxim Shostakovich
1971: III edition Alexander Lazarev Waldemar Nelson
1976: IV edition Valery Gergiev
1983: V edition Gintaras Rinkevičius
1988: VI edition Alexander Polianichko (first prize) Alexander Polishchuk (third prize) Rashid Skuratov (third prize)
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