The Matthijs Vermeulen Award is the most important Dutch composition prize. It was named after the Dutch composer

Matthijs Vermeulen Matthijs Vermeulen (born Matheas Christianus Franciscus van der Meulen) (8 February 1888 – 26 July 1967), was a Dutch composer and music journalist. Early life Matthijs Vermeulen was born in Helmond. After primary school he initially want ...

(1888–1967). During the years 1972 through 2004, the prize was awarded annually by the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts. The award was discontinued from 2005, when the Amsterdam Foundation merged it with the Amsterdam Award for the Arts ( Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst). In March 2009, the Nederlands Foundation for Stage Arts announced it will renew the prize. The prize money is €20,000.

List of award winners

*1972:

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(Omaggio a Gesualdo) *1973:

Peter Schat Peter Ane Schat (5 June 1935, in Utrecht – 3 February 2003, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer. Schat studied composition with Kees van Baaren at the Utrecht Conservatoire and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1952 until 1958, and th ...

(To You) *1974:

Willem Breuker Willem Breuker (4 November 1944 – 23 July 2010) was a Dutch bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and clarinetist. Career During the mid 1960s, he played with percussionist Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg, co-founding the Insta ...

(Het paard van Troje) *1975:

Tristan Keuris Tristan Keuris (3 October 1946 in Amersfoort – 15 December 1996 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer. Life and career Keuris initially studied with Jan van Vlijmen in Amersfoort. At the age of 15 he started his studies with Ton de Leeuw at the U ...

(Sinfonia) *1976: ''not awarded'' *1977:

Louis Andriessen Louis Joseph Andriessen (; 6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although ...

(De Staat) *1978: Jeugd en Muziek (Zeeland) / Leo Cuypers (Zeelandsuite) *1979: Otto Ketting (Symphony for saxophones and orchestra) *1980:

(Quatemi) *1981:

Jan Boerman Jan Boerman (30 June 1923 – 25 October 2020) was a Dutch composer who specialised in electronic music from 1959. He was born in The Hague. The Delft Polytechnic in Utrecht, from which the Institute of Sonology was developed, housed the first el ...

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) *1982:

Ton de Leeuw Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw (Rotterdam, 16 November 1926 - Paris, 31 May 1996) was a Dutch composer. He occasionally experimented with microtonality. Life and career Taught by Henk Badings, Olivier Messiaen and others, and in his youth ...

(Car mes vignes sont en fleur) *1983: Klaas de Vries (Discantus) *1984:

Guus Janssen Guus Janssen (born 13 May 1951) is a Dutch composer of contemporary music and a recording artist. A pianist and harpsichordist, he is also active as a jazz performer. He studied piano and composition at the Sweelinck Academy of Music in Am ...

(Ternet) *1985:

Dick Raaymakers Dick Raaijmakers (Maastricht, 1 September 1930 – The Hague, 4 September 2013), also known as Dick Raaymakers or Kid Baltan, was a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape mus ...

(Extase) *1986:

Theo Loevendie Johan Theodorus Loevendie (born 17 September 1930 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer and clarinet player. Loevendie studied composition and clarinet at the music academy (Conservatorium) of Amsterdam. Initially he concentrated on jazz music. A ...

(Naima) *1987:

Gottfried Michael Koenig Gottfried Michael Koenig (5 October 1926 – 30 December 2021)"In Memoriam Got ...

*1988: Joep Straesser (Über Erich M.) *1989:

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(Requiem voor een levende) *1990:

Peter-Jan Wagemans Peter-Jan Wagemans (The Hague, September 7, 1952) is a Dutch composer. Wagemans studied organ (diploma 1974), composition with Jan van Vlijmen (diploma 1975) and music theory (diploma 1977) at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. After his stud ...

(Rosebud) *1991:

Klas Torstensson Klas Torstensson (born 16 January 1951) is a Swedish-Dutch composer. Career Torstensson was born in Nässjö, and studied composition Ingesunds Musikhögskola, musicology at Göteborgs universitet and electronic music at the Institute for So ...

(Stick on Stick) *1992:

(M. is for Man, Music and Mozart; Facing Death, Dances, Hout en Lacrimosa) *1993:

Robert Heppener Robert Heppener (9 August 1925 in Amsterdam – 25 August 2009 in Bergen), also known as Bob Heppener, was a Dutch composer. He was among the most important Dutch composers of the 20th century. Early life and education Heppener was born in Amste ...

(Im Gestein) *1994:

(Der Fall/Dépons; Die glückliche Hand — Geöffnet) *1995: ''not awarded'' *1996:

Diderik Wagenaar Diderik Wagenaar (born 10 May 1946 in Utrecht) is a Dutch composer and musical theorist. Life and work Wagenaar has lived and worked all his adult life in The Hague. Born to a musical family that includes Johan Wagenaar, he began playing piano a ...

(Trois Poèmes; Prose) *1997:

(Three Shakespeare Songs) *1998: Klaas de Vries (A king, riding en Interludium for

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) *1999: Ron Ford (Salome Fast) *2000: Richard Rijnvos (Times Square Dance) *2001:

Misha Mengelberg Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer.Feather, Leonard & Gitler, Ira (2007) ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 459. Oxford University Press. A prominent figure in post-WWII European Jazz ...

(Opera 2000) *2002:

(Moloch) *2003:

Richard Ayres Richard Ayres (born 29 October 1965, Cornwall) is a British composer and music teacher. Biography Born in Cornwall, England, Richard Ayres followed Morton Feldman's classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools. He studied compositio ...

(No. 36 NONcerto) *2004: Michel van der Aa (''

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'') *2005–2008: ''not awarded'' *2009: Boudewijn Tarenskeen (''Mattheus Passie'') *2011: Richard Rijnvos (''Die Kammersängerin'') *2013:

Jan van de Putte Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article N ...

(''Kagami-Jishi'' for piano solo and orchestra) *2015: Peter Adriaansz (Scala II) *2017: Kate Moore (The Dam) * 2019: Aart Strootman (Shambling Emerge – after party) * 2021: Calliope Tsoupaki (Thin Air)

References

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