Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize

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The Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize of the Künstlergilde e. V., formerly the "East German Music Prize", is awarded by the Esslingen Artists' Guild to personalities - professionals and up-and-coming artists - for outstanding achievements in the field of music . The award has been given once a year since 1960 and goes to composers and performing musicians whose work and work arose from reflection and exchange with German music in Eastern Europe and who have an affinity for the music of the historical German cultural landscapes. The prize is named after the Bohemian composer and violinist Johann Wenzel Stamitz , the founder of the so-called Mannheim School of Instrumental Music and creator of the symphonic orchestral style .

Award winners (selection)

Other award winners

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.miz.de Description of the tasks Stamitz Prize at the Dt. Music Information Center (accessed: July 9, 2010)
  2. ↑ German Bundestag Printed Matter 13/8096 of 23 June 1997
  3. ^ Transylvania newspaper of April 30, 1995
  4. ^ Tonkünstlerverband Südostbayern ( Memento from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 23, 2011)

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