Hindemith Prize goes to someone you never heard of
mainSuch a relief to report that an award has been made for future promise rather than long-distant achievement.
Richer today by 20,000 Euros is the Austrian composer Bernd Richard Deutsch.
(When they have three names, you’ve generally never heard of them).
He’s 37, lives in Vienna and was recently signed by Boosey & Hawkes.
Hans Werner Henze
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Christian Bach
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Jean-Philippe Rameau
George Frideric Handel
Nope, never heard of ’em.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Christophe Willibald Gluck
Georg Philipp Telemann
Giovanni Batistta Pergolesi
And many more even with four and five names