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

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