Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

German music award

Award

Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Awarded for	"composers, whose works would meet the demands of Bach."
Sponsored by	the Senate and the Hamburg Parliament
Location	Hamburg
Country	Germany
Reward(s)	€10,000
First awarded	1951
Website	www.hamburg.de/bkm/bach-preis/

The Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German: Bach-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg) has been awarded since 1951, since 1975 every four years. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, the prize was founded in 1950 by the Senate and the Hamburg Parliament.^[1] The prize is endowed with €10,000 and is awarded to composers, whose works would meet the demands of Bach. €5,000 are earmarked for scholarships.^[2]

Recipients

1951 Paul Hindemith
1954 Philipp Jarnach
1957 Boris Blacher
1960 Wolfgang Fortner
1963 Johann Nepomuk David
1966 Ernst Krenek
1972 Helmut Lachenmann
1975 György Ligeti
1979 Olivier Messiaen
1983 Hans Werner Henze
1987 Aribert Reimann
1992 Alfred Schnittke
1995 Karlheinz Stockhausen
1999 Wolfgang Rihm
2003 Adriana Hölszky
2007 Sofia Gubaidulina^[3]
2011 Tan Dun
2015 Pierre Boulez^[4]
2019 Unsuk Chin^[5]^[6]
2023 Jörg Widmann^[7]

References

^ "Bach-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg". Online-Ausgabe des Handbuchs der Kulturpreise (in German). 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ "Der Hamburger Bach-Preis wird alle vier Jahre vergeben". hamburg.de (in German). 1 January 1970. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
^ "Sofia Gubaidulina erhält Hamburger Bach-Preis". Der Tagesspiegel (Press release) (in German). Berlin. dpa. 19 January 2007. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ "Komponist Pierre Boulez erhält Hamburger Bach-Preis 2015". neue musikzeitung (Press release) (in German). Regensburg. dpa. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ Isermann, Enno (20 February 2019). "Komponistin Unsuk Chin wird mit dem Hamburger Bach-Preis 2019 ausgezeichnet" (Press release) (in German). Hamburg – Behörde für Kultur und Medien. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
^ "Hamburger Bach-Preis geht an koreanische Komponistin Unsuk Chin". neue musikzeitung (in German). Regensburg. dpa. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
^ "Zwei große Ehrungen an einem Abend in der Elbphilharmonie". hamburg.de (in German). Retrieved 1 May 2023.

External links

Official website (in German)

Classical music awards

Asia

Europe

Eastern	Enescu Prize International Chopin Piano Competition International Tchaikovsky Competition Fryderyk (Polish Grammys)
Northern	Birgit Nilsson Prize Classic Brit Awards Elgar Medal Gramophone Classical Music Awards Harriet Cohen International Music Award International Opera Awards Leeds International Piano Competition Léonie Sonning Music Prize Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards Sibelius Medal Queen's Medal for Music Walter Willson Cobbett Medal Wihuri Sibelius Prize
Western	ARD International Music Competition Arnold Schönberg Prize Bach Medal Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Beethoven Prize Beethoven Ring Brahms-Preis Cannes Classical Awards Diapason d'Or Echo Klassik Edison Award Ernst von Siemens Music Prize European Piano Contest Bremen Franco Abbiati Prize Gaudeamus International Composers Award Gaudeamus International Interpreters Award Handel Prize Heidelberger Frühling Music Award Herbert von Karajan Music Prize Herbert von Karajan Prize Hindemith Prize Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau International Arthur Grumiaux Competition for Young Violinists International Classical Music Awards International Franz Liszt Piano Competition Matthijs Vermeulen Award Mauricio Kagel Music Prize Mendelssohn Scholarship Nederlandse Muziekprijs Prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation Queen Elisabeth Competition Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau Salzburg Music Prize Schneider-Schott Music Prize Telemann Prize Viotti International Music Competition Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Compositions

by BWV	Cantatas Motets Masses, Mass movements, Magnificats, Passions and Oratorios Chorale harmonisations Songs and arias Organ compositions Keyboard and lute Chamber music Orchestral works Fugal works Anh.
More info	Bach cantata Church music in Latin Passions Bach's choir and orchestra Performance practice of Bach's music BACH motif Printed during Bach's lifetime Reception Reconstructions Transcriptions New Bach Edition

People

Biographers and scholars	Basso Dadelsen Dürr Forkel Glöckner Hofmann Jones Maul Neumann Riemenschneider Rust Schmieder Schulze Spitta Terry Williams Wolf Wolff Wollny Zehnder