 Jury members included famous musicians such as Claudio Arrau, Nadia Boulanger, Arthur Rubinstein, Magda Tagliaferro, Guido Agosti, Florica Musicescu, Dmitri Bashkirov, Carlo Zecchi, and Lazar Berman.After the 1970 edition, there was a 21-year hiatus, after which the next competition was held in 1991, already in modern Romania.Only twice, in 1961 and in 2011, no first-prize was awarded.