Name the virtuosos of 1959
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This is the jury at the Reine Elisabeth competition in 1959.
No points for recognising Menuhin (3rd left) and Oistrakh (3rd right).
But who are the others?
(right click on picture and open image in new tab to enlarge)
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Stephan Grappelli far right I think and Nathan Milstein on the right behind the 2 women?
It would have been great to have Grappelli as a judge!
Neither Milstein nor Grappelli was a judge.
Well I can’t enlarge the pic, but I think that’s Arthur Grumiaux peering out from behind the hat?
Correct
The tall bald chap at the back could be Joseph Szigeti?
Correct
FLTR: René Benedetti, Oskar Back, Menuhin, Szigeti, Yvonne Astruc, André Gertler, Grumiaux, Elisabeth, ?, Oistrakh, Gioconda da Vito, Philip Newman
Yes, the lady with hat, veil and corsage, the only figure without a violin, is the Belgian Queen Dowager Elisabeth, patron of the competition.
The prize-winners among the competitors in 1959 were, from first to fifth place:
1st (Bolivia) Jaime Laredo
2nd (Soviet Union) Albert Markov
3rd (United States) Joseph Silverstein
4th (Soviet Union) Vladimir Malinin
5th (Soviet Union) Boris Kouniev
There is a Wikipedia article about the history of this competition. David Oistrakh himself won in 1937, its first year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elisabeth_Competition#1951%E2%80%931986
This website lists winner and jury members for all competitions:
http://www.cmireb.be/concours2/documents/palmares1937201319863.pdf
Now you have to match names to faces for the 1959 jury.
Jury
Marcel CUVELIER [president]
Yvonne ASTRUC
Vladimir AVRAMOV
Oscar BACK
René BENEDETTI
Gioconda DE VITO
Henri GADEYNE
Ivan GALAMIAN
André GERTLER
Arthur GRUMIAUX
Yehudi MENUHIN
Philip NEWMAN
David OISTRAKH
Joseph SZIGETI
I see Arthur and Joe among the faces……
Can’t enlarge the picture like you say with the right click. As is, it looks like a bunch of emoji heads.
Try this. It works for me and might for you too:
Right click
left click “save image as”
The image is a .jpg file with this name “violinists-1959-768×610”
You can save the .jpg to your desktop or someplace else. Once it has been saved, you should be able to enlarge the image, although you might lose some resolution in the process.
If you are doing all this on your small smartphone screen, then it is harder to enlarge and have the entire group remain on your screen.
Nope doesn’t work either.
I use Firefox for my browser and I get the enlarged picture by right clicking on the above photo and then clicking on view image.