The Anton Bruckner Prize is the main Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria (

Kulturpreis des Landes Oberösterreich The Kulturpreis des Landes Oberösterreich (Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria) is awarded as a prize by the Province of Upper Austria. The prize is endowed with 7,500 euros and is awarded annually in several categories. References

) for music. The prize, which is awarded by the Land of Upper Austria, is named after the composer

Anton Bruckner Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-Germ ...

, who was cathedral organist in

Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...

from 1855 to 1868. The award is endowed with 11,000 euros and is presented in a ceremony in Linz.

Laureates before 1989

(incomplete) * 1962: Johann Nepomuk David * 1964: Isidor Stögbauer * 1966:

Helmut Eder Helmut Eder (December 26, 1916, Linz – February 8, 2005, Salzburg) was an Austrian composer. Eder studied until 1948 at the Linz Conservatory, later studying with Johann Nepomuk David in Stuttgart and Carl Orff in Munich. Returning to Linz, he ...

* 1972: Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer

Grand Prize winners since 1989

* 1993:

Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter (9 September 1936 – 26 September 2003) was member of the Austrian , composer and organist. Life Born in Hargelsberg, Kropfreiter spent his school years from 1948 at the Catholic Bischöfliches Gymnasium Petrinum, ...

. * 1996:

Balduin Sulzer Balduin Sulzer (Cistercians) (as ''Josef Sulzer'' (15 March 1932 – 10 April 2019) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest. He became known as a music educator and composer. Life Sulzer was born in Großraming. At the age of ten Sulzer came to ...

. * 2001:

Alfred Peschek Alfred Peschek (14 May 1929 – 4 February 2015) was an Austrian composer and musician. Life and career Born in Linz, Peschek was drafted into the Volkssturm as a 15-year-old in the last year of the war, suffered a leg injury and was briefly ta ...

. * 2003:

Fridolin Dallinger Fridolin Dallinger (16 February 1933 – 28 October 2020) was an Austrian composer, music educator and painter. He was the brother of composer Gerhard Dallinger (1940–2016).Elisabeth Th. Hilscher/Georg Demcisin, Art. „Dallinger, Brüder“, i ...

. * 2010:

Ernst Ludwig Leitner Ernst Ludwig Leitner (born 14 October 1943) is an Austrian composer, organist and academic teacher. Education Born in Wels, Leitner studied music education, organ and composition at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and finally musicology at ...

. * 2016:

Gunter Waldek Gunter Waldek (born 26 July 1953) is an Austrian composer, conductor and music educator. Life and career Waldek was born in Linz. Already in his youth he received piano, organ and music theory lessons at the Anton Bruckner Private University. ...

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