The Johannes Brahms Medal (german: Johannes-Brahms-Medaille, links=no) of

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

is a music award established in 1928, named after the composer

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

who was born in Hamburg. The medal is given irregularly by the to artists who contributed to musical life in Hamburg, especially devoted to music by Brahms. The medal shows a portrait of the composer. It was designed by the Hamburg sculptor

Friedrich Wield Friedrich Ernst Martin Wield (15 March 1880, Hamburg - 10 June 1940, Hamburg) was a German sculptor. Life and work He was the second son born to Christian Wield, a Master carpenter, and his wife, Johanna née Deest. In 1896, after attending th ...

. Until 1935 it was primarily given to German or Austrian composers, and for services to the musical life of Hamburg. But in 1935 international members of the Permanent Council organising Hamburg's International Festival were all awarded medals.

Selected recipients

* 1928: Karl Muck * 1929: Hamburger Philharmonisches Orchester und Orchester of the Hamburger Stadttheater * 1933: Eugen Papst, Alfred Sittard,

Karl Böhm Karl August Leopold Böhm (28 August 1894 – 14 August 1981) was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Wagner, and Richard Strauss. Life and career Education Karl Böhm was born in Graz. T ...

* 1934:

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic music, Romantic and early Modernism (music), modern eras, he has been descr ...

* 1935:

Hans Pfitzner Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera '' Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the ...

Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...

Albert Roussel Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His ...

Siegmund von Hausegger Siegmund von Hausegger (16 August 1872 – 10 October 1948) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Early life Siegmund was born in Graz, the son of Friedrich von Hausegger (1837-1899), a lawyer and writer on music. According to Siegmund's ow ...

, Joseph Haas, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Kurt Atterberg,

Wilhelm Kienzl Wilhelm Kienzl (17 January 1857 – 3 October 1941) was an Austrian composer. Biography Kienzl was born in the small, picturesque Upper Austrian town of Waizenkirchen. His family moved to the Styrian capital of Graz in 1860, where he studied t ...

, Herbert Bedford * 1937:

Wilhelm Furtwängler Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler ( , , ; 25 January 188630 November 1954) was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. He was a major ...

, Paul Graener, Heinrich Karl Strohm,

Eugen Jochum Eugen Jochum (; 1 November 1902 – 26 March 1987) was a German conductor, best known for his interpretations of the music of Anton Bruckner, Carl Orff, and Johannes Brahms, among others. Biography Jochum was born to a Roman Catholic family in ...

* 1958: Robert Casadesus, Philipp Jarnach,

Joseph Keilberth Joseph Keilberth (19 April 1908 – 20 July 1968) was a German conductor who specialised in opera. Career He started his career in the State Theatre of his native city, Karlsruhe. In 1940 he became director of the German Philharmonic Orches ...

Leopold Ludwig Leopold Ludwig (12 January 1908 – 25 April 1979) was a German conductor active mainly in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through the 1970s. He was principal conductor of the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater (1936–1939), Vienna State Opera (19 ...

, Günther Rennert, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt,

Heinz Tietjen Heinz Tietjen (24 June 1881 – 30 November 1967) was a German conductor and music producer born in Tangier, Morocco. Biography Tietjen was born in Tangier, Morocco. At age twenty-three, he held the position of producer at the Opera House ...

, Henny Wolff * 1960:

Ernst Gernot Klussmann Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) ...

* 1963: Robert Heger,

Ilse Fromm-Michaels Ilse Fromm-Michaels (30 December 1888 – 22 January 1986) was a German pianist and composer. Life Ilse Fromm-Michaels was born in Hamburg and showed musical talent at an early age. She studied music in Berlin, first at the Hochschule fur Mu ...

* 1964: Claude Rostand,

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* 1970: Erna Berger * 1973:

Wolfgang Sawallisch Wolfgang Sawallisch (26 August 1923 – 22 February 2013) was a German conductor and pianist. Biography Wolfgang Sawallisch was born in Munich, the son of Maria and Wilhelm Sawallisch. His father was director of the Hamburg-Bremer-Feuerversich ...

Rolf Liebermann Rolf Liebermann (14 September 1910 – 2 January 1999), was a Swiss composer and music administrator. He served as the Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera from 1959 to 1973 and again from 1985 to 1988. He was also Artistic Director of ...

Emil Gilels Emil Grigoryevich Gilels ( Russian: Эми́ль Григо́рьевич Ги́лельс; 19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) was a Russian pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. Early life and educati ...

* 1976:

Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg The Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg is a mixed choir in Hamburg, the chamber choir of the University of Hamburg since 1961. Founded in 1955 by Jürgen Jürgens and directed by him until 1994, it is one of Germany's most famous concert choirs. The choir is ...

* 1982: Hamburger Symphoniker * 1983: Aldo Ceccato * 1987:

Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi or Jehudi (Hebrew: יהודי, endonym for Jew) is a common Hebrew name: * Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor ** Yehudi Menuhin School, a music school in Surrey, England ** Who's Yehoodi?, a catchphrase referring to t ...

* 1988:

Günter Wand Günter Wand (7 January 1912, in Elberfeld, Germany – 14 February 2002, in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was a German orchestra conductor and composer. Wand studied in Wuppertal, Allenstein and Detmold. At the Cologne Conservatory, he was a c ...

* 1989: Detlef Kraus * 1990: Hellmut Wormsbächer * 1991:

Jürgen Jürgens Jürgen Jürgens (5 October 1925 – 4 August 1994) was a German choral conductor and academic teacher. He founded and directed the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg, a pioneering ensemble for Monteverdi's music. Biography Born in Frankfurt am Main, Jür ...

* 1994:

Felicitas Kukuck Felicitas Kukuck (2 November 19144 June 2001) was a German music educator and composer of opera and other works. Biography Felicitas Kukuck was born in Hamburg in 1914. Her parents encouraged their daughter's artistic development from childhood an ...

* 1996:

Conrad Hansen Conrad Hansen (24 November 1906 – 22 June 2002) was a German pianist and an eminent piano teacher. Life Born in Lippstadt, as an eight-year-old, Hansen had his first piano lessons in his hometown, and only two years later he was giving public ...

* 1997:

Günter Jena Günter Jena (born 1933) is a German choral conductor and musicologist. He was the director of church music at St. Michaelis in Hamburg from 1973 to 1997. He founded the festival Bach-Tage Hamburg, and provided music for ballet performances of cho ...

* 1998: NDR Sinfonieorchester * 2001: * 2004:

Hermann Rauhe Hermann Rauhe (born 6 March 1930) is a German musicologist. Life Rauhe was born in Wanna/Niederelbe. After he passed the Abitur at the in Cuxhaven in 1949, he studied music and music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hambur ...

* 2010: NDR Chor * 2012: Hamburger Kammermusikfreunde * 2020: Christoph von Dohnanyi

References

External links

Liste der Geehrten
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Johannes-Brahms-Gesellschaft Hamburg
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