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Mittwoch, Juni 15, 2016 - 09:55

French composer Patrick Burgan has receieved the Prix Musique "Déodat de Séverac" of the Académie du Languedoc.

Janez Matičič
Dienstag, Juni 14, 2016 - 10:48

The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) has honoured the composer Janez Matičič with a ceremony on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

Aribert Reimann
Montag, Juni 13, 2016 - 16:18

The German composer Aribert Reimann will receive this year's "Robert Schumann Prize for poetry and music". Reimann lives in Berlin.

Martin Böttcher
Mittwoch, Mai 4, 2016 - 08:11

The German film music composer Martin Böttcher will receive the eighth Deutschen Musikautorenpreises (German Music Author Prize) in the category "life-time achievement".

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Donnerstag, April 28, 2016 - 11:57

The handwritten manuscript of Malcolm Arnold's seventh symphony was found back by his daughter Katherine.

Freitag, April 22, 2016 - 12:41

Saxophonist and flutist Henry Threadgill has been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music. He receives the prize for his recording In for a Penny, In for a Pound.

Freitag, April 8, 2016 - 12:04

The Berlin composer Malte Giesen has won the composition contest for contemporary music of the German city of Oldenburg.

Donnerstag, April 7, 2016 - 11:59

The ­American Academy of Arts and Letters has awarded Robert Kyr with one of America's most prestigious prizes: the Arts and Letters Award.

Freitag, März 25, 2016 - 10:11

German composer Moritz Eggert will receive this year's Louis Spohr Prize. The prize, which is rewarded by the German city of Braunschweig every three yearseggert, is a sum of €10,000.

Freitag, März 18, 2016 - 14:25

Canadian composer Emilie Cecilia LeBel is the 2016 winner of the Land’s End Composer’s Competition. She will receive a $1500 commissioning prize for a new piano trio for the Land’s End Ensemble.

Michel Legrand
Donnerstag, März 3, 2016 - 14:46

The Western Michigan University's Board of Trustees have approved that French composer Michel Legrand will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters Honorary Degree on May 16, with a public .

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Mittwoch, März 2, 2016 - 10:28

The eighty year old German composer Helmut Lachenmann has won the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Prize for his opera “Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern” (The little match girl), after the famous

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Montag, Februar 29, 2016 - 15:31

Italian composer Ennio Morricone has won his first Oscar — for best music score — at the age of 87 years. This makes him the oldest Oscar winner ever.

Donnerstag, Februar 25, 2016 - 15:23

Last Tuesday, the "Kunst-Förderpreis" for music/composition of the German Bundesland Brandenburg was awarded to Berlin-born composer Helmut Oehring.

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Montag, Februar 22, 2016 - 11:28

British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society. He is the 102nd musician to receive this medal.

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Montag, Februar 15, 2016 - 13:54

A composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that was only known because it was mentioned in Koechel's catalog (K 477a) has been found back in Prague.

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Freitag, Februar 12, 2016 - 14:47

The composer Andersen Viana (Belo Horizonte) was one of 6 (six) composers selected from 22 countries in “The International Timo Korhonen Composition Competition” with his work “In E (Em Mi)” for in

Donnerstag, Februar 4, 2016 - 16:01

On February 12, St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota, will award an honorary degree to American composer David Maslanka.

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Freitag, Januar 29, 2016 - 17:04

The Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikpreis for 2016 has been awarded to the Danish composer Per Nørgård.

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