The Contest took place in Valencia bullring at 4pm on the 29 and 30 July. There were only two divisions: Division Two, for bands with up to 40 musicians, and Division One, for bands with more than 40 musicians.
The five bands taking part in Division Two played the compulsory piece Phaeton by Camille Saint-Saëns and a free-choice piece. First Prize was won by the Agrícola de Monserrat (with 40 musicians) conducted by Francisco Hueso del Toro, which played the Rienzi Overture by Richard Wagner.
The First Accessit Prize was awarded to the band of the Pueblo Nuevo del Mar Music Trust (with 39 musicians), led by their conductor José Borrero Pérez, which played the Peasant Wedding Op. 26 by Karl Goldmark.
The Second Accessit Prize was won by the El Arte de Sagunto (with 39 musicians), performing the Phedre Overture by Jules Massenet under the baton of José Antonino Gimeno.
The bands which did not receive prizes were: the Antella Municipal Band (with 33 musicians), which played Rapsodia Española by Salvador Giner Vidal under the direction of José García Pastor; and the Alboraya Music Association Band (with 40 musicians), which performed the Marche Héroïque by Camille Saint-Saëns, conducted by Alfredo Clavel Viadel.
There were only three bands in Division One; consequently they all received a prize. The compulsory pieces were the Third and Fourth Movements of the Symphonie Fantastique Op. 14 by Héctor Berlioz.
The Jury members were Enrique Granados Campiña (composer), Bernardo Gabiola Lazpita (conductor of the San Sebastian Municipal Band), José Bellver Abella (Professor at the Valencia Conservatory of Music) and Rafael Pérez de Lucía (Head of the City Council Department for Fairs and Festivals, who acted as Secretary). They awarded the following prizes:
First Prize was given to the Benaguacil Music Association (with 70 musicians), which played the Tannhäuser Overture by Richard Wagner under the baton of Joaquín Pérez Rodríguez.
The First Accessit Prize went to the Xátiva Primitiva Band (with 52 musicians), which was conducted by Francisco Castelló Domínguez and played Ludwig Van Beethoven’s King Stephen Overture.
The Second Accessit Prize was awarded to the Lira Saguntina of Sagunto (with 59 musicians) which performed Scènes Pittoresques by Jules Massenet, conducted by Antonio Palanca Masiá.
This year, prizes were also given to the most beautiful pasodobles (day one) and original pasodobles (day two) to the value of 200 pesetas for the first prize and 100 pesetas for the accessit prize.
On the first day the prize went to the Benaguacil Music Association Band which played La Canción del Harén by Camilo Pérez Laporta and the accessit prize was awarded to the Alboraya Music Association Band which performed the “Marcha Cosaca” by Gabriel Parès.
On the second day the prizes were reversed: First Prize went to the Alboraya Music Association Band which played the pasodoble Patria by Alfredo Clavel Viadel (the Band’s conductor) and the Accessit Prize went to the Benaguacil Music Association Band which played the pasodoble entitled Nador, written by the Band’s conductor, Joaquín Pérez Rodríguez.
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