page_title: Maria Canals International Music Competition
section_title: Commentaries on the competition
hierarchical_section_title: Maria Canals International Music Competition / Commentaries on the competition
caption_attribution_description: Català: Activitats a l'Avinguda Diagonal de Barcelona, el diumenge 19 d'abril de 2015. Pianista amb un piano del Concurs Internacional Maria Canals. English: Avinguda Diagonal, Barcelona. Sunday, April 19th 2015.
context_page_description: The Maria Canals International Music Competition is a music competition held yearly in the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona. It was founded as a piano competition in 1954, but in 1964 it was expanded so other modalities could be held occasionally.
  It was founded in 1954 by the Catalan pianist Maria Remei Canals i Cendrós and her husband, the composer and writer Rossend Llates. Since 1954, the Competition has welcomed over 7,000 participants from 100 countries and 180 jury members from all over the world. It became a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in 1958.
  The Maria Canals competition, for which artists such as Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies and Joan Clavé have made publicity posters, was declared to be of public utility by the Spanish Interior Ministry in 1996.
caption: Pianist performing at Avinguda Diagonal, as part of the Maria Canals competition event in 2015.
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