The Queen Elisabeth music Competition, a founder member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions (1957) has been, since its foundation, considered the world over to be one of the most prestigious, but also one of the most difficult in existence. It is devoted the violin (since 1951), to the piano (since 1952), to composition (since 1953) and to singing (since 1988). In each category sessions are held every four years. The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... Musical composition is: an original piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Singing Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, often constrasted with speech. ...
Prizes
First Prize:
INTERNATIONAL QUEEN ELISABETH GRAND PRIZE
HM Queen Fabiola Prize
20,000 euro - numerous concerts - recording on CD
Second Prize:
BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PRIZE
17,500 euro - concerts - recording on CD
Third Prize:
COUNT DE LAUNOIT PRIZE
15,000 euro - concerts
Fourth Prize:
PRIZE AWARDED ALTERNATELY BY EACH OF THE COMMUNITIES OF BELGIUM
10,000 euro - concerts
Fifth Prize:
BRUSSELS CAPITAL REGION PRIZE
8,000 euro - concerts
Sixth Prize:
CITY OF BRUSSELS PRIZE
7,000 euro - concerts
Patronage
The Queen Elisabeth Competition generates income from its own activities, from private patronage and from sponsoring. Resources are varied: part of the funding for the prizes laureates receive is provided by public authorities and patrons, corporate sponsors, donors contributions, ticket and programme sales, advertising in the programmes and the sale of recordings. The Competition also benefits from the volunteer assistance of families who open their homes to candidates for the duration of the competition.
Elisabeth Gabriele Valérie Marie, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria (July 25, 1876 – November 23, 1965), was the queen consort of Albert I of Belgium and was the mother of Leopold III of Belgium.
She was a niece and namesake of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
QueenElisabeth died at the age of 89 on November 23, 1965.
The QueenElisabethCompetition has for fifty years provided an extremely broad palette of emotions for music lovers: passion, joy, sadness, commitment, argumentation… communion with music, in spite of all the reproaches or reserves one might have from time to time.
This functional and elegant building was inaugurated in 1939 in Waterloo as a higher institute for music teaching, in which the pupil-residents studied the piano, the violin, the viola, the cello or composition with their chosen teacher in exceptional conditions of comfort and tranquillity.
Inaugurated with the violin in 1951, the competition celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1976 (which was also the centenary of the birth of QueenElisabeth) by changing the usual order of the sessions in its favour.
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