Karlheinz Stockhausen - Honours

Honours

Amongst the numerous honours and distinctions that were bestowed upon Stockhausen are:

  • 1964 German gramophone critics award;
  • 1966 and 1972 SIMC award for orchestral works (Italy);
  • 1968 Grand Art Prize for Music of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia; Grand Prix du Disque (France); Member of the Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg;
  • 1968, 1969, and 1971 Edison Prize (Holland);
  • 1970 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music;
  • 1973 Member of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin;
  • 1974 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class (Germany);
  • 1977 Member of the Philharmonic Academy of Rome;
  • 1979 Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters;
  • 1980 Member of the European Academy of Science, Arts and Letters;
  • 1981 Prize of the Italian music critics for Donnerstag aus Licht;
  • 1982 German gramophone prize (German Phonograph Academy);
  • 1983 Diapason d'or (France) for Donnerstag aus Licht;
  • 1985 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France);
  • 1986 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize;
  • 1987 Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, London;
  • 1988 Honorary Citizen of the Kuerten community (Gemeinde Kürten website);
  • 1989 Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
  • 1990 Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria;
  • 1991 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music; Accademico Onorario of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Caecilia, Rome; Honorary Patron of Sound Projects Weimar;
  • 1992 IMC-UNESCO Picasso Medal; Distinguished Service Medal of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia; German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Luzifers Tanz (3rd scene of Saturday from Light);
  • 1993 Patron of the European Flute Festival; Diapason d'or for Klavierstücke I–XI and Mikrophonie I and II;
  • 1994 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score Jahreslauf (Act 1 of Tuesday from Light);
  • 1995 Honorary Member of the German Society for Electro-Acoustic Music; Bach Award of the city of Hamburg;
  • 1996 Honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. h. c.) of the Free University of Berlin; Composer of the European Cultural Capital Copenhagen; Edison Prize (Holland) for Mantra; Member of the Free Academy of the Arts Leipzig; Honorary Member of the Leipzig Opera; Cologne Culture Prize;
  • 1997 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Weltparlament (1st scene of Wednesday from Light); Honorary member of the music ensemble LIM (Laboratorio de Interpretación Musical), Madrid;
  • 1999 Entry in the Golden Book of the city of Cologne;
  • 2000 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Evas Erstgeburt (Act 1 of Monday from Light);
  • 2000–2001 The film In Absentia made by the Quay Brothers (England) to concrete and electronic music by Karlheinz Stockhausen won the Golden Dove (first prize) at the International Festival for Animated Film in Leipzig. More awards: Special Jury Mention, Montreal, FCMM 2000; Special Jury Award, Tampere 2000; Special Mention, Golden Prague Awards 2001; Honorary Diploma Award, Cracow 2001; Best Animated Short Film, 50th Melbourne International Film Festival 2001; Grand Prix, Turku Finland 2001;
  • 2001 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score Helicopter String Quartet (3rd scene of Wednesday from Light); Polar Music Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of the Arts;
  • 2002 Honorary Patron of the Sonic Arts Network, England;
  • 2003 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Michaelion (4th scene of Wednesday from Light);
  • 2004 Associated member of the Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres & des Beaux-arts (Belgium); Honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. h. c.) of the Queen's University in Belfast; German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Stop and Start for 6 instrumental groups;
  • 2005 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Hoch-Zeiten for choir (5th scene of Sunday from Light).
  • 2006 Honorary member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna
  • 2008 On 22 August, Stockhausen's birthday, the Rathausplatz in his home town of Kürten was renamed Karlheinz-Stockhausen-Platz in his honour (Bäumer 2008).
  • 2009 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Momente for solo soprano, four choral groups, and 13 instrumentalists.
  • 2010 The municipality of Kürten adopts the designation "Stockhausengemeinde" in honour of the late composer (Landschoof 2010).

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