Talk:International Tchaikovsky Competition

Tchaikovsky Competition 2006?
What's the deal? Is there a competition this year, or what?

--AlkanSite 19:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Saradjian
Cello Competition - twice somebody has changed the winner to Vagram Saradjian. In 1970 Saradjian shared 4th prize as can be seen here on the Tchaikovsky Competition offical website:

http://www.xiiitc.ru/view.asp?history#85d898d8d04b4a45b1725f833e4893dc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Auntiesbloomers (talk • contribs) 03:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Though this is not suprising given the wording of Saradjian's bio:

http://www.music.uh.edu/people/saradjian.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Auntiesbloomers (talk • contribs) 03:53, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

First prize issues
First prize (always to be awarded) is 20,000 Euro ...  - well, that's rubbish (my highlighting). There are many examples where the first prize was NOT awarded.

Also, John Ogdon's article is now saying he and Vladimir Ashkenazy did not share first prize but were given separate first prizes. That seems loopy to me. There is only one possible first place, but it can be shared. Comments? --  Jack of Oz   [your turn]  20:37, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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Main part of the article needs updating
It looks like the first couple of paragraphs are written in the context of 2011. This article could use some work so that it does not appear to be out of date with successive competitions, as there was one in 2015, and will be one in 2019. If I get a chance I will try to add more information that is about the competition in general and not based on a specific year. --Fifthcoastbobcat (talk) 19:51, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

1982 piano competition.
Well I'll be darned. The 1982 New York Times article is pretty clear about how the piano competition came out, but the 1996 New York Times obituary is just as clear. I would be interested to know how we got from 1982 to 1996, but in the mean time, what can one do except to assume that 1996 is correct. It might be helpful to add a citation of the obituary, as well as the citation of the page from the "Bach Cantatas Website". Bruce leverett (talk) 15:02, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

The Russian Wiki article about this competition has Kozawa in third place, with Barbagallo in seventh, as in the earlier NYT article. Also, this film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYAEZq1bAdE gives a list of prize winners at the end, agreeing with the earlier NYT article.

It may be advisable to cite sources on both sides of this question. That is, even if I could prove that the 1996 article was wrong, I would still cite it, and explicitly mention, in the footnote text, that it had been widely copied. Likewise, if I could prove that the earlier sources were wrong, I would explicitly cite one of them, etc. Bruce leverett (talk) 02:53, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

James Barbagallo was seventh in 1982, NY wrote about in 1982 as Donohoe in his diary did. Is he Wrong - hardly imaginable. Besides, as a witness I never found a wrong statement on the list of ClassicalMudicNevs.rus. --PaulasBunt (talk) 14:22, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

I have cited both of the mutually contradictory NY Times articles, as well as ClassicalMusicNews.ru. Bruce leverett (talk) 02:51, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Erick Friedman Controversy
Do you have any kind of source for this whole section? The incident, such as it was, is not mentioned in Erick Friedman, nor in the N.Y. Times obituary that I found online. It is mentioned in a way that doesn't imply actual controversy in :
 * Against the wishes of Heifetz but encouraged by David Oistrakh, Friedman entered the Moscow-based Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1966 and finished tied for sixth. Thereafter his career never quite regained the momentum it had had just a couple of years earlier.

In order for this incident to be worth mentioning in International Tchaikovsky Competition, we have to have a reliable source that describes it as an actual controversy. Bruce leverett (talk) 19:13, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

It is mentioned on Jascha Heifetz under Immigration Status. Also, I added sources that show that many were suspicous of the results.


 * The AllMusic site, as I quoted above, doesn't confirm that there was an actual controversy.


 * The other reference, norpete.com, is a music sales website. The whole purpose of the material about Friedman is to promote and sell a recording by him.  This is not a WP:RS for biographical material.


 * The norpete.com material consists mainly of a few paragraphs by some guy in which he gets his account of the 1966 Tchaikovsky by directly quoting Friedman. Autobiographical material is not the stuff of which reliable sources are made.  I would be interested if you could find some reputable magazine, newspaper, musical criticism website, etc., which takes seriously Friedman's complaint that the Tchaikovsky was judged against him because of his association with Heifetz.


 * Thanks for pointing out Jascha Heifetz. It has a paragraph about Friedman at the Tchaikovsky that looks very similar to what you have written in this (Tchaikovsky) article.  Indeed, almost word for word.  But it has no citations to sources.


 * I should clarify that I am not uninterested in Friedman's story. Perhaps, indeed, there was bias among the judges.  But as encyclopedia editors, we have to rely on reliable published sources.  Bruce leverett (talk) 02:04, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

World Federation of Competitions does not belong in the Lede
It is indeed true that the World Federation of International Music Competitions dropped the Tchaikovsky in 2022.

On the other hand, that was the first that many people had ever heard of the World Federation: the Tchaikovsky is much more famous than the World Federation. Kicking out Tchaikovsky is probably the most notable thing it has ever done.

There's already a section that describes this; i don't think it's significant enough to go in the lede.

Son of eugene (talk) 01:28, 4 October 2023 (UTC)