No first prize was awarded in Vienna’s International Beethoven Competition Vienna, in 1961. Despite staggering entry requirements, the only star of the first magnitude ever to emerge from the quadrennial event was Mitsuko Uchida, in 1969. Still, hope springs eternal. Who will vault to the fore in this, the 250th-anniversary year of Beethoven’s birth? —M.G.
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Beethoven Klavierwettbewerb Wien, final concert
When
May 14, 2020