- Source: Beethoven Prize
- Teguh Sukaryo
- Kim Myung-min
- Song Ok-sook
- Albert Einstein
- Jerman
- Iskandar Widjaja
- Alfred Brendel
- Maria João Pires
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Evgeny Kissin
- Beethoven Prize
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Beethoven Virus
- Fazıl Say
- Beethoven House
- Danish String Quartet
- Esmé Quartet
- Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven)
- Jakob Lenz (opera)
- Alexander von Zemlinsky
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 (1961: biennially, 5,000DM). The prize was last awarded in 1992. Other Beethoven Prizes existed in Vienna and Berlin.
Recipients
1961 Heimo Erbse for Pavimento, op. 19, for large orchestra
1963 Milko Kelemen for Transfiguration for piano and orchestra
1967 György Ligeti for Requiem
1970 Klaus Huber for Tenebrae
1974 Bruno Maderna for Aura for orchestra (posthum), Peter Michael Hamel for Dharana, Chris Hinze for Live Music Now
1977 Iannis Xenakis for Erikhthon for orchestra, Pauline Oliveros for Bonn Fire, Pierre Mariétan for Opus Wassermusik, Luftklang, Straßenmusik
1980 Wolfgang Rihm for Jacob Lenz, Aleksander Lasón for Symphonie concertante for piano and orchestra, Reinhard Febel for Charivari for ensemble
1983 Manuel Hildalgo for Hacia (string quartet), Manfred Stahnke for Penthesilea (3rd string quartet), Joachim Krebs for Quartettomanie (2nd string quartet)
1986 Jörg Birkenkötter for Sechs Stücke für Kammerensemble, Michael Jarell for Trei II for soprano and five instruments, Konstantinos Varotsis for "Schillern" ("Iridescences")
1989 Bernd Jestl for Der König stirbt (opera), Hermann Spree for Aufregungszustand am Nachmittag (chamber opera)
1992 Paul Roberts for Align II for Saxophon-Trio and Piano