Emil Gilels

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Soviet pianist (1916-1985)

MusiciansLived 1916 to 1985 · aged 69

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Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Russian and Soviet pianist. His sister Elizabeth, three years his junior, was a violinist. His daughter Elena became a pianist.

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Pianists Emil Gilels (left) and Yakov Flier who took first and third prizes respectively at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels, Belgium. Pravda newspaper (Soviet Union). May 1938.

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Awards 14

1973Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau

Stalin Prize

Order of Lenin

Hero of Socialist Labour

Order of the Badge of Honour

People's Artist of the USSR

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of Friendship of Peoples

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Lenin Prize

Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Order of Leopold

State Stalin Prize, 1st degree

In their orbit 3

SpouseRoza Tamarkina

ChildElena Gilels

SiblingElizabeth Gilels

Connected to Emil 6

Vito VolterraAlso won Order of Leopold

Wolfgang SawallischAlso won Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau

Alexander of BattenbergAlso won Order of Leopold

Eliso VirsaladzeAlso won Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau

Boris III of BulgariaAlso won Order of Leopold

Sviatoslav RichterAlso won Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau