Bach Medal

Bach Medal
Bach Medal
Awarded for	"efforts to promote the work of Johann Sebastian Bach"
Location	Leipzig
Country	Germany
Presented by	Lord Mayor Leipzig, Bachfest Leipzig
Reward(s)	Medal (Meissen porcelain)
First awarded	2003
Website	www.bachfestleipzig.de/en/bach-festival/bach-medal

The Bach Medal (German: Bach-Medaille) is awarded by the Lord Mayor of Leipzig during the Bachfest Leipzig in recognition of efforts to promote the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig is an annual award.

Jury[]

Members of the artistic directorate of Bachfest
Thomaskantor
Rector of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
Gewandhauskapellmeister
Intendant of Leipzig Opera

Recipients[]

2003 Gustav Leonhardt
2004 Helmuth Rilling
2005 Sir John Eliot Gardiner
2006 Ton Koopman
2007 Nikolaus Harnoncourt
2008 Hermann Max
2009 Frieder Bernius
2010 Philippe Herreweghe
2011 Herbert Blomstedt
2012 Masaaki Suzuki^[1]
2013 Peter Schreier
2014 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
2015 [de]
2016 Peter Kooij
2017 Reinhard Goebel^[2]
2018 Robert D. Levin^[3]
2019 Klaus Mertens^[4]
2020 Angela Hewitt^[5]
2021 Christoph Wolff and Hans-Joachim Schulze^[6]

References[]

^ "Masaaki Suzuki to receive Bach Medal 2012". Yale University. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
^ Pizzey, Rebecca (6 June 2017). "Reinhard Goebel awarded Bach Medal". rhinegold.co.uk. London: Rhinegold Publishing. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
^ "Pianist Robert Levin bekommt Leipziger Bach-Medaille 2018". neue musikzeitung (Press release) (in German). Regensburg: ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. dpa. 21 March 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
^ Dippel, Roland H. (16 June 2019). "Leipziger Bach-Medaille an Klaus Mertens überreicht". Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). Leipzig. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
^ "Angela Hewitt erhält Bach-Medaille 2020". Pizzicato (in German). Luxembourg. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
^ "Bach-Medaille für zwei Musikwissenschaftler". Süddeutsche.de (in German). dpa. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

External links[]

Official website

[Yale-1] "Masaaki Suzuki to receive Bach Medal 2012". Yale University. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2018.

[2] Pizzey, Rebecca (6 June 2017). "Reinhard Goebel awarded Bach Medal". rhinegold.co.uk. London: Rhinegold Publishing. Retrieved 3 July 2018.

[3] "Pianist Robert Levin bekommt Leipziger Bach-Medaille 2018". neue musikzeitung (Press release) (in German). Regensburg: ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. dpa. 21 March 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.

[Dippel-4] Dippel, Roland H. (16 June 2019). "Leipziger Bach-Medaille an Klaus Mertens überreicht". Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). Leipzig. Retrieved 17 June 2019.

[5] "Angela Hewitt erhält Bach-Medaille 2020". Pizzicato (in German). Luxembourg. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

[Zeitung_2021-6] "Bach-Medaille für zwei Musikwissenschaftler". Süddeutsche.de (in German). dpa. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

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