The Johannes Brahms Medal (german: Johannes-Brahms-Medaille, links=no) of Hamburg is a music award established in 1928, named after the composer

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

who was born in Hamburg. The medal is given irregularly by the to artists who contributed to musical life in Hamburg, especially devoted to music by Brahms. The medal shows a portrait of the composer. It was designed by the Hamburg sculptor

Friedrich Wield Friedrich Ernst Martin Wield (15 March 1880, Hamburg - 10 June 1940, Hamburg) was a German sculptor. Life and work He was the second son born to Christian Wield, a Master carpenter, and his wife, Johanna née Deest. In 1896, after attending th ...

. Until 1935 it was primarily given to German or Austrian composers, and for services to the musical life of Hamburg. But in 1935 international members of the Permanent Council organising Hamburg's International Festival were all awarded medals.

Selected recipients

* 1928: Karl Muck * 1929: Hamburger Philharmonisches Orchester und Orchester of the Hamburger Stadttheater * 1933: Eugen Papst, Alfred Sittard, Karl Böhm * 1934:

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...

* 1935: Hans Pfitzner, Jean Sibelius,

Albert Roussel Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His ...

, Siegmund von Hausegger, Joseph Haas,

Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek Emil Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von Reznicek (4 May 1860, in Vienna – 2 August 1945, in Berlin) was an Austrian composer of Romanian-Czech ancestry. Life Reznicek's grandfather, Josef Resnitschek (1787–1848), was a trumpet virtuoso and b ...

, Kurt Atterberg, Wilhelm Kienzl,

Herbert Bedford Herbert Bedford (23 January 1867 – 13 March 1945) was a composer, author, miniature painter and inventor. He was married to the soprano and composer Liza Lehmann from 1894 until her death in 1918. His grandsons were the conductor Steuart Bedfo ...

* 1937: Wilhelm Furtwängler, Paul Graener, Heinrich Karl Strohm, Eugen Jochum * 1958: Robert Casadesus, Philipp Jarnach, Joseph Keilberth,

Leopold Ludwig Leopold Ludwig (12 January 1908 – 25 April 1979) was a German conductor active mainly in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through the 1970s. He was principal conductor of the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater (1936–1939), Vienna State Opera (19 ...

, Günther Rennert, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt,

Heinz Tietjen Heinz Tietjen (24 June 1881 – 30 November 1967) was a German conductor and music producer born in Tangier, Morocco. Biography Tietjen was born in Tangier, Morocco. At age twenty-three, he held the position of producer at the Opera House ...

, Henny Wolff * 1960:

Ernst Gernot Klussmann Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) ...

* 1963:

Robert Heger Robert Heger (19 August 1886 – 14 January 1978) was a German conductor and composer from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. Life and career He studied at the Conservatory of Strasbourg under Franz Stockhausen, then in Zurich under Lothar ...

Ilse Fromm-Michaels Ilse Fromm-Michaels (30 December 1888 – 22 January 1986) was a German pianist and composer. Life Ilse Fromm-Michaels was born in Hamburg and showed musical talent at an early age. She studied music in Berlin, first at the Hochschule fur Mu ...

* 1964: Claude Rostand,

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* 1970: Erna Berger * 1973: Wolfgang Sawallisch, Rolf Liebermann, Emil Gilels * 1976:

Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg The Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg is a mixed choir in Hamburg, the chamber choir of the University of Hamburg since 1961. Founded in 1955 by Jürgen Jürgens and directed by him until 1994, it is one of Germany's most famous concert choirs. The choir is ...

* 1982: Hamburger Symphoniker * 1983:

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* 1987: Yehudi Menuhin * 1988: Günter Wand * 1989: Detlef Kraus * 1990: Hellmut Wormsbächer * 1991: Jürgen Jürgens * 1994:

Felicitas Kukuck Felicitas Kukuck (2 November 19144 June 2001) was a German music educator and composer of opera and other works. Biography Felicitas Kukuck was born in Hamburg in 1914. Her parents encouraged their daughter's artistic development from childhood an ...

* 1996:

Conrad Hansen Conrad Hansen (24 November 1906 – 22 June 2002) was a German pianist and an eminent piano teacher. Life Born in Lippstadt, as an eight-year-old, Hansen had his first piano lessons in his hometown, and only two years later he was giving public ...

* 1997:

Günter Jena Günter Jena (born 1933) is a German choral conductor and musicologist. He was the director of church music at St. Michaelis in Hamburg from 1973 to 1997. He founded the festival Bach-Tage Hamburg, and provided music for ballet performances of cho ...

* 1998: NDR Sinfonieorchester * 2001: * 2004:

Hermann Rauhe Hermann Rauhe (born 6 March 1930) is a German musicologist. Life Rauhe was born in Wanna/Niederelbe. After he passed the Abitur at the in Cuxhaven in 1949, he studied music and music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hambur ...

* 2010: NDR Chor * 2012: Hamburger Kammermusikfreunde * 2020:

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References

External links

Liste der Geehrten
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Johannes-Brahms-Gesellschaft Hamburg
{{authority control Johannes Brahms German awards Medals Awards established in 1928 1928 establishments in Germany