The International Mendelssohn Prize Leipzig is awarded annually by the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation. The prize carries no monetary award. The award is presented with the Mendelssohn-Festtage Leipzig at the Gewandhaus. A bronze sculpture, given to the recipients, was modeled after the Mendelssohn monument by artist Jo Jastram. Since 2025, the award categories are Music and Europe.
Recipients 2007 Kurt Masur 2008 Anne-Sophie Mutter and Peter Sloterdijk 2009 Riccardo Chailly, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Helmut Schmidt 2010 Lang Lang and Iris Berben 2011 Peter Schreier and Marcel Reich-Ranicki 2012 Thomanerchor and Harald Schmidt 2013 Richard von Weizsäcker, Thomas Hampson and Markus Lüpertz 2014 Hans-Dietrich Genscher and the Gewandhaus Quartet (Frank-Michael Erben, Conrad Suske, Olaf Hallmann, Jürnjakob Timm) 2016 Tomoko Masur 2025 Elena Bashkirova and W. Michael Blumenthal 2026 Jörg Widmann and Angela Merkel
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