Johannes Brahms Medal
The Johannes Brahms Medal of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is a music prize that has been awarded since 1928.
Story and purpose
The medal was donated in 1928 by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to honor artists, personalities and / or groups of people for special merits and outstanding achievements in the field of music, especially Brahms care and Hamburg's musical life. The honor is dedicated to the composer Johannes Brahms , who was born in Hamburg in 1833 . The award takes place at irregular intervals by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to a different number of people.
The medal
The medal has a diameter of 95 mm and shows the name and a side portrait of Johannes Brahms on the obverse, and the inscriptions "For merits to Hamburg music life" and "Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg" on the reverse.
The design was carried out by the Hamburg sculptor Friedrich Wield .
Previous medal recipients
- 1928: Karl Muck
- 1929: Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra of the Hamburg City Theater
- 1933: Julius Spengel , Eugen Papst , Alfred Sittard , Karl Böhm
- 1934: Max Lohfing , Richard Strauss
- 1935: Hans Pfitzner , Jean Sibelius , Albert Roussel , Siegmund von Hausegger , Joseph Haas , Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek , Herbert Bedford , Adriano Lualdi , Kurt Atterberg , Wilhelm Kienzl
- 1936: John Julia Scheffler
- 1937: Wilhelm Furtwängler , Paul Graener , Heinrich Karl Strohm , Eugen Jochum
- 1952: Albert Döscher
- 1958: Robert Casadesus , Philipp Jarnach , Joseph Keilberth , Leopold Ludwig , Günther Rennert , Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt , Heinz Tietjen , Henny Wolff
- 1960: Gustav Witt, Ernst Gernot Klussmann , Conrad Hanns
- 1962: Paul Schwarz
- 1963: Robert Heger , Ilse Fromm-Michaels
- 1964: Claude Rostand , Frank Wohlfahrt
- 1970: Erna Berger
- 1972: Ernst Markus
- 1973: Wolfgang Sawallisch , Kurt Stephenson , Rolf Liebermann , Emil Gilels
- 1976: Monteverdi Choir Hamburg
- 1978: Adolph Detel , Gerhard Maasz
- 1982: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
- 1983: Kurt Hofmann, Helmut Wirth, Aldo Ceccato
- 1987: Yehudi Menuhin
- 1988: Günter Wand
- 1989: Detlef Kraus
- 1990: Hellmut Wormsbächer
- 1991: Jürgen Juergens
- 1994: Felicitas Kukuck
- 1996: Conrad Hansen
- 1997: Günter Jena
- 1998: NDR Symphony Orchestra
- 2001: Children's and youth choir " Hamburger Alsterspatzen ", Jürgen Luhn
- 2004: Hermann Rauhe
- 2010: NDR choir
- 2012: Hamburg Association of Friends of Chamber Music
- 2019: Christoph von Dohnányi
Remarks
- ↑ Illustration of the medal
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Pianist, concert accompanist and opera expert
- ↑ Paul Schwarz: The heart begins to beat in time. Tomorrow the singer will be awarded the 75th Brahms Medal . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 29, 1962.
- ^ Founder of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
- ↑ Bahms biographer
- ^ Founder of the Hamburger Alsterspatzen
- ^ Conductor and former director of the Hamburg State Opera
