The Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition is an international classical music competition for pianists and violinists that has operated in France since 1943. It was created by the pianist Marguerite Long

Marguerite Long

Marguerite Long was a French pianist and teacher.Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was born in Nîmes. She studied with Henri Fissot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1891, and privately with Antoine François Marmontel...

 and the violinist Jacques Thibaud

Jacques Thibaud

Jacques Thibaud was a French violinist.Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won the conservatory's violin prize with Pierre Monteux...

. Thibaud died in 1953, Long in 1966.

From 2011 it will also include singers, and has been renamed the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, to recognise the French soprano Régine Crespin

Régine Crespin

Régine Crespin was a French singer who had a major international career in opera and on the concert stage between 1950 and 1989. She started her career singing roles in the dramatic soprano and spinto soprano repertoire, drawing particular acclaim singing Wagner and Strauss heroines...

 (1927-2007).

Frequency

The competition was initially triennial, but from 1949 it was held biennially. In 1980, it was split into two contests, where pianists compete only against other pianists, and violinists only against other violinists. Previously, violinists and pianists competed against each other. That year, it reverted to a triennial competition. In 2007, it became biennial once more. From 2011, under its new name, it will become triennial again.

Juries

Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...

 headed the violin jury from 1993 till his death in 1999. The president of the violin jury is currently Salvatore Accardo

Salvatore Accardo

Salvatore Accardo is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor.He is highly regarded for his interpretations of Paganini, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, contemporary works, chamber music, and opera conducting....

, and Aldo Ciccolini

Aldo Ciccolini

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 heads the piano jury.

Winners

The winners in the inaugural contest (1943) were Samson François

Samson François

Samson Pascal François was a French pianist and composer.-Biography:François was born in Frankfurt where his father worked at the French consulate. His mother, Rose, named him Samson, for strength, and Pascal, for spirit...

 (piano) and Michèle Auclair

Michèle Auclair

Michèle Auclair was a French violinist and teacher.Michèle Auclair was born into a family with sense for arts and culture...

 (violin).

Other notable prize winners include: Paul Badura-Skoda

Paul Badura-Skoda

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, Dimitri Bashkirov, Anshel Brusilow

Anshel Brusilow

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, Alexandre Brussilovsky

Alexandre Brussilovsky

Alexander Brussilovsky is a Russian-born French violinist and conductor.Alexandre Brussilovsky was born in Ukraine and completed his musical education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Yuri Yankelevich, Maya Glezarova, Felix Andrievsky and Leonid Kogan...

, Stanislav Bunin

Stanislav Bunin

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, Olivier Cazal

Olivier Cazal

Olivier Cazal is a French pianist.He was awarded 2nd prizes at the 1988 Maria Canals Competition, the 1991 Concorso Busoni , the 1991 Long-Thibaud Competition, and the 1992 Sydney International Piano Competition...

, Jean-Philippe Collard

Jean-Philippe Collard

Jean-Philippe Collard is a renowned French pianist who is known for his interpretations of the works of Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns.Born into a musical family, he started playing the piano at age five...

, Youri Egorov

Youri Egorov

Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov was a Soviet classical pianist.-Early years:Born in Kazan, USSR, Youri Egorov studied music at the Kazan Conservatory from the age of 6 until age 17. One of his early teachers was Irina Dubinina, a former pupil of Yakov Zak ....

, Philippe Entremont

Philippe Entremont

Philippe Entremont is a French pianist and conductor. He has made many recordings during his career, notably one in 1961 of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic....

, Arnold Eidus

Arnold Eidus

Arnold Eidus is a world renowned concert violinist and recording artist.Eidus's parents were Russian immigrants; his father was a violinist and his mother played piano. A child prodigy, Eidus made his debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of 11...

, Vladimir Feltsman

Vladimir Feltsman

Vladimir Feltsman is a Russian American classical pianist.Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky, Moscow, and Leningrad Vladimir Feltsman is a Russian American classical pianist.Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He...

, Christian Ferras

Christian Ferras

Christian Ferras was a French violinist.Ferras was born at Le Touquet in 1933. He began studying the violin with his father, who was a pupil of Marcel Chailley. He entered the Conservatoire de Nice as a student of Charles Bistesi in 1941, and in 1943 obtained the First Prize. In 1944 he went to...

, Peter Frankl

Peter Frankl

Peter Frankl is a Hungarian-born British pianist. He mainly performs music from the Classical period , the Romantic period and the early Modern period...

, Marina Goglidze-Mdivani

Marina Goglidze-Mdivani

Georgian virtuoso pianist Marina Goglidze-Mdivani was born on October 6, 1936 in Tbilisi, Georgia.-Biography:...

, György Pauk

György Pauk

-Biography:Born in Budapest, Hungary, Pauk entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music there at age twelve where he studied under Zoltán Kodály. In 1956 he left Hungary for the Netherlands and, after being persuaded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he permanently settled in London in 1961.Since then he...

, Nelli Shkolnikova

Nelli Shkolnikova

Nelli Efimovna Shkolnikova was a Russian Jewish classical violinist who spent many years teaching in Australia and the United States....

, Song Siheng. Piano, 2004, Vladimir Spivakov

Vladimir Spivakov

Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov is a leading Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the chamber orchestra....

, Gabriel Tacchino

Gabriel Tacchino

Gabriel Tacchino is one of the premier post-war French classical pianists; he also teaches piano.Tacchino was born in Cannes. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1947 to 1953, where his teachers included Jacques Février and Marguerite Long...

, Tamás Vásáry

Tamás Vásáry

Tamás Vásáry is a celebrated Hungarian concert pianist.- Biography and career :Vásáry made his debut at the age of 8, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D major, K.107 in the city of his birth, where he gave a solo recital the following year. He then began to concertize regularly as a child...

, Vladimir Viardo

Vladimir Viardo

Vladimir Viardo, born in 1949 at Krasnia Polana in the Caucasus, USSR, is a Russian pianist.Viardo studied with Irina Naumova at the Gnessin State Musical College and later studied with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he remained as a student for six years. Naumov would...

, and Jean-Pierre Wallez

Jean-Pierre Wallez

Jean-Pierrre Wallez is a French violinist and conductor.-Career:Wallez was born in Lille. He graduated in first place in violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. He won the highest prize of the 1960 Paganini Competition in Genoa after...

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