Ernst Krenek Prize
The Ernst Krenek Prize is the highest award that the City of Vienna has to bestow for a special achievement in the field of music.
The city donated the prize in 1985 on the occasion of the 85th birthday of its honorary citizen Ernst Krenek . It is awarded to a work by composers or music writers. The prize is awarded every two years on the basis of a proposal by an independent jury. It is endowed with prize money of 10,000 euros.
Award winners
- 1986: René Staar for “Just an Accident? A Requiem for Anton Webern an Other Victims of the Absurd "
- 1988: Kyoko Abe for "Midnight Summer"
- 1990: Dieter Kaufmann for "The Journey to Paradise"
- 1992: Wolfgang Fuhrmann for “strategies of wit. Experiment on Haydn "
- 1994: No award ceremony
- 1996: Matthias Schmidt for the monograph “Ernst Krenek: Grammar of Extreme. A contribution to the theory and practice of dodecaphonic thinking of the Vienna School "
- 1998: Georg Friedrich Haas for "Night"
- 2000: Olga Neuwirth , for "Bählamms Fest"
- 2002: Bernd Richard Deutsch for "The Metamorphosis"
- 2004: Gerd Kühr for “Three Shakespeare Sonnets” for mixed choir a cappella
- 2006: Pierluigi Billone for “MANI. LONG "
- 2008: Franz Koglmann for " Nocturnal Walks "
- 2010: Richard Dünser for "Radek"
- 2012: Bernhard Gander for "MELTING POT"
- 2014: Johanna Doderer
- 2016: Pia Palme for the composition "MORDACIOUS LIPS, TO DUST"
- 2018: Thomas Larcher
Web links
- krenek.at Ernst Krenek Prize of the City of Vienna
- City of Vienna: Prize winners
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.wien.gv.at/kultur/abteilung/ehrungen/krenek-preis.html
- ↑ orf.at: Ernst Krenek Prize for composer Larcher . Article dated August 3, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018.