Beethoven Prize | |
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Awarded for | "the best orchestral work of a young composer" |
Location | Bonn |
Country | Germany |
Reward(s) | 25,000DM |
First awarded | 1961 |
Last awarded | 1992 |
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".[1] No restrictions were made to genre, style and instrumentation of the composition.[1] 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.