Beethoven Prize


The Beethoven Prize of the city of Bonn was an international composition competition. In 1959 Bonn's Lord Mayor Wilhelm Daniels announced the establishment of a Beethoven prize for the best orchestral work of a young composer. No restrictions were made to genre, style and instrumentation of the composition. The prize was given every 3 years, the prize money was 25,000DM. The prize was last awarded in 1992. Other Beethoven Prizes existed also in Vienna and Berlin.

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