Hindemith Prize

The title of this article is ambiguous. On the city of Hanau 's price, see the Paul Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau .

The international Hindemith Prize has been awarded to contemporary composers at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (SHMF) since 1990 .

background

The Hindemith Prize was awarded in 1990 by the Hindemith Foundation (Blonay / Switzerland), the Rudolf and Erika Koch Foundation, the Walther and Käthe Busche Foundation, the Gerhard Trede Foundation, the Franz Wirth Memorial Foundation and the Donated to the cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . The award “is intended to promote outstanding contemporary composers. At the same time, the award is a reminder of the music educational work of Paul Hindemith , who wrote the composition »Plöner Musiktag« in 1932 on behalf of the Plön State Educational Institute. The prize is endowed with 20,000 euros.

The price was originally not a competitive price. In 2010 it was awarded for the first time as part of a composition competition. These were announced by the SHMF and the NDR Radiophilharmonie together with the foundations that have already been awarded the Hindemith Prize. Young composers who must have been born after September 1, 1973 were asked to write a concerto for multipercussion and symphony orchestra . The work of the competition winner was premiered at the SHMF 2010 by the classic drummer Martin Grubinger .

Award winners

• 1990 Wilhelm Killmayer
• 1991 Ensemble "Association for Modern Music"
• 1992 Wolfgang von Schweinitz
• 1993 Jan Müller-Wieland
• 1994 Babette Koblenz
• 1995 Caspar Johannes Walter
• 1996 Wolfram Schurig
• 1997 Helmut Oehring
• 1998 String Thing
• 1999 Olga Neuwirth
• 2000 Matthias Pintscher
• 2001 Thomas Adès
• 2002 Jörg Widmann
• 2003 Rebecca Saunders
• 2004 Jörn Arnecke
• 2005 Lera Auerbach
• 2006 Michel van der Aa
• 2007 Dai Fujikura
• 2008 Márton Illés
• 2009 Johannes Maria Staud
• 2010 Sascha Lino Lemke
• 2011 Markus Lehmann-Horn
• 2012 Li Bo
• 2013 Maximilian Schnaus (2nd prize: Alexander Muno , 3rd prize: Johannes Söllner and Daniel Smutny )
• 2014 Bernd Richard German
• 2015 David Philip Hefti
• 2016 Anna Clyne
• 2017 Samy Moussa
• 2018 Clara Iannotta
• 2019 Aigerim Seilova
• 2020 Stefan Johannes Hanke

See also

• Paul Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau

Web links

• Hindemith Foundation website

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Announcement at the German Music Information Center
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