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 fairy tale written by Andersen.

The composer will receive the prize on April 2nd in Odense, Denmark, birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen.

Source: http://www.musik-heute.de/12439/andersen-preis-fuer-komponist-helmut-lac...