Winners of the 1st Rio de Janeiro International Piano Competition

Winners of the 1st International Piano Competition of Rio de Janeiro (1957). From left to right: Nelson Freire (12 years old at the time, played the 1st movement of Beethoven's Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" in the final); Giuseppe Postiglione (Italian, tied for 2nd place); Alexander Jenner (Austrian, 1st place); Sergei Dorensky (Russian, tied for 2nd place); Claude Albert Coppens (Belgian, won the "Villa-Lobos Prize" for his outstanding performance of this composer's Concerto No. 5); Fernando Lopes (awarded "best interpreter of mazurkas"); and Mikhail Voskresensky (Russian). Nelson Freire's private collection.