Word: czajkowski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played less well than I could." The second, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 18, who "stupefied" a critic with his technique and profound insight and his colleagues by memorizing the Defossez in two days. Other front-runners in the final twelve were Denver-born John Browning, 23, and Poland's Andrzej Czajkowski (pronounced Tchaikovsky), 20. On the advice of Manhattan's Leon Fleischer, who won the last piano Concpurs, Browning chose Brahms's Concerto No. 2 for his big selection, playing it stunningly, and he was the first finalist to bring order out of the Defossez chaos. Czajkowski reminded observers...
...bread at each place and turning the chairs upside down. At week's end, at last they filed onto the stage, where they heard the verdict of the 13-member panel of judges (including Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Robert Casadesus, Emil Gilels). The winners: first Ashkenazy, second Browning, third Czajkowski...