Sviatoslav Richter - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

• Stalin Prize (1950);
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1955);
• Grammy Award (1960);
• Lenin Prize (1961);
• People's Artist of the USSR (1961);
• Robert Schumann Prize (1968);
• Honorary Doctor of the University of Strasbourg (1977);
• Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1986; Denmark);
• Hero of Socialist Labour (1975);
• Three Orders of Lenin (1965, 1975, 1985);
• Order of the October Revolution (1980);
• Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1987) - for concert programmes in 1986, performed in the cities of Siberia and the Far East;
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th class (1995);
• Russian Federation State Prize (1996);
• Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (France)
• Doctor of Music, honoris causa Oxford University
• Voted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2012