ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CITY OF VIENNA ERNST KRENEK PRIZE
In 1985, on the occasion of the 85th birthday of its honorary citizen Ernst Krenek, the City of Vienna established a prize of € 8.000 for composers and musicologists, to be awarded biennially.
This award is to be conferred by the City Councillor for Culture on the basis of the recommendation of a jury, which will nominate the prizewinner on the basis of its own independent assessment with immunity from any legal process or claim.
The Ernst Krenek Prize may be awarded to composers or musicologists who have applied personally and are resident in Vienna or have a particularly close connection with the city.
The application is to be submitted in the form of a curriculum vitae and a list of works as well as the work (composition, study, etc.) for which the prize is to be awarded. The identity (name, address, etc.) of the applicant is not to be evident from the work itself, as the nomination of the prizewinner is to be anonymous and independent of their name or previous work. Judgement will be made exclusively on the basis of works of or about serious music.
Persons who have already been awarded a prize or grant by the City of Vienna or the Federal Ministry are not excluded from the conferral of the Ernst Krenek Prize.
If no work worthy of the prize is available, the award will not take place.
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applications are to be submitted to the cultural department of the City
of Vienna, 1082 Wien, Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 5, by 31 March of the year
following the announcement. Online you can do this here
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City of Vienna Ernst
Krenek Prize (Awarded biennially. First awarded 1986.)
| 1986 | Rene Staar for the work "Just an Accident? A Requiem for Anton Webern and Other Victims of the Absurd", op. 9 |
| 1988 | Kyoko Abe for the work "Midnightsummer" |
| 1990 | Dieter Kaufmann for the work "Die Reise ins Paradies" |
| 1992 | Wolfgang Fuhrmann for the work "Strategien des Witzes. Versuch über Haydn" |
| 1994 | no award |
| 1996 | Matthias Schmidt for the study "Ernst Krenek: Grammatik der Extreme. Ein Beitrag zu Theorie und Praxis des dodekaphonen Denkens der Wiener Schule". |
| 1998 | Georg Friedrich Haas, composer, for the chamber opera "Nacht" |
| 2000 | Olga Neuwirth, composer and musician, for her work "Bählamms Fest" |
| 2002 | Bernd Richard Deutsch, composer, for his chamber-opera „Die Verwandlung“ |