The Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg has been awarded since 1951, since 1975 every four years. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of
Johann Sebastian Bach, the prize was founded in 1950 by the Senate and the
Hamburg Parliament. The prize is endowed with €10,000 and is awarded to composers, whose works would meet the demands of Bach. €5,000 are earmarked for scholarships.
Recipients
* 1951
Paul Hindemith
* 1954
Philipp Jarnach
* 1957
Boris Blacher
* 1960
Wolfgang Fortner
* 1963
Johann Nepomuk David
* 1966
Ernst Krenek
* 1972
Helmut Lachenmann
* 1975
György Ligeti
* 1979
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...
* 1983
Hans Werner Henze
* 1987
Aribert Reimann
Aribert Reimann (born 4 March 1936) is a German composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'', the opera ''Lear (opera), Lear'', was written at the suggestion of Dietrich F ...
* 1992
Alfred Schnittke
* 1995
Karlheinz Stockhausen
* 1999
Wolfgang Rihm
* 2003
Adriana Hölszky
* 2007
Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (russian: Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина, link=no , tt-Cyrl, София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established ...
* 2011
Tan Dun
* 2015
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music.
Born in Mont ...
* 2019
Unsuk Chin
References
External links
{{Johann Sebastian Bach
Classical music awards
German music awards
Awards established in 1950
Johann Sebastian Bach