Word: defossez
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...week a dozen enervated ghosts were left to ache up to the piano and venture the stipulated "transcendental difficulties" of the Concours finals (TIME, June 6. 1955). The requirements: one short solo piece, one undesignated concerto and-to assure transcendental difficulty-a modern, unpublished concerto by Brussels' Rene Defossez. The finalists were bundled into the comfortable Chapelle Musicale and told they had a week in which to learn the strange new work...
...meals, went to bed with bleeding fingertips. He thought he played his final concert "rather well. But I always feel I 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...
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