Franco Abbiati Prize

The Franco Abbiati Prize (Italian: Premio Franco Abbiati della critica musicale italiana) is an annual award that has been presented by the National Association of Music Critics in Italy since 1980.[1] Named after the Italian musicologist Franco Abbiati, past winners of the award have included Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Myung-whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sergiu Celibidache, John Eliot Gardiner, Leonidas Kavakos, Carlos Kleiber, Evgeny Kissin, Radu Lupu, Zubin Mehta, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti, Maurizio Pollini, András Schiff, Grigory Sokolov, Jeffrey Tate, Alpesh Chauhan, Arcadi Volodos, and Krystian Zimerman, among many others.[2][3][4][5]

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  3. ^ "● 1990–1999". » ● 1990–1999 (in Italian). 2014-07-10. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  4. ^ "● 2000–2009". » ● 2000–2009 (in Italian). 2014-07-10. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  5. ^ "● 2010–2018". » ● 2010–2018 (in Italian). 2014-07-18. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2019-03-30.