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273:. Żurawlew recalled later: "I met with utter incomprehension, indifference and even aversion. The opinion among musicians was unanimous: Chopin is so great that he can defend himself. At the Ministry, it was announced that there were no funds for it and that the whole idea was unfeasible". In this difficult situation, help arrived from Henryk Rewkiewicz—a businessman, music lover and board member of The Warsaw Music Society, who offered his personal financial guarantees to cover the entire deficit expected to arise from the first Competition. Many years later Jerzy Żurawlew wrote, “ I was greatly helped by my friend Henryk Rewkiewicz, director of the Match Monopoly, who offered 15,000 złoty - a substantial sum at the time - for the Competition”. Ultimately, things picked up with the election of a new Polish president, 198: 604: 485: 460: 373: 891: 879: 867: 848: 829: 810: 791: 778: 766: 754: 739: 714: 695: 669: 624: 584: 548: 503: 431: 402: 25: 530: 726: 566: 1160: 301: 138: 311:
26 pianists took part in the competition, including 16 competitors from Poland. After an elimination round, 8 pianists were admitted to the final, where they performed two consecutive movements of one of Chopin's two piano concertos with the
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of Germany, who judged the finals only, being the sole exception. Throughout the competition, the Polish press only presented Polish competitors as the real contenders for the prize, leading the public to expect a Polish victory. When
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As Żurawlew was convinced that only Polish musicians could truly understand Chopin's music, the jury was composed almost entirely of Poles,
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The Endless Search for Chopin: The History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw
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Chopinowskie igrzysko. Historia Międzynarodowego Konkursu Pianistycznego im. Fryderyka Chopina 1927–2015
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The competition was originally scheduled to start on 15 October 1926, the day of the unveiling of
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The Chopin Games. The History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition 1927–2015
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was awarded the first prize, it came as a shock and as a national humiliation, the
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was among the participants, though he only received an honorable mention.
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The First International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
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Chopin Competition
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International Chopin Piano Competition
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