When was the RPS Gold Medal first awarded?
The RPS Gold Medal was introduced in 1870, to celebrate the centenary of Beethoven's birth. It is the Royal Philharmonic Society's highest accolade and is awarded internationally to an outstanding musician.
List of previous winners of RPS Gold Medal
1871 William Sterndale Bennett Christine Nilsson Charles Gounod Joseph Joachim Helen Lemmens-Sherrington Arabella Goddard Charles Santley William G Cusins Theresa Tietiens Fanny Linzbauer
1872 Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa
1873 Hans von Bülow
1876 Louisa Bodda-Pyne Anton Rubinstein
1877 Johannes Brahms
1880 Stanley Lucas
1895 Adelina Patti
1897 Emma Albani Ignacy Jan Paderewski
1900 Edward Lloyd
1901 Eugene Ysaÿe
1902 Jan Kubelik
1903 Clara Butt
1904 Fritz Kreisler
1909 Louise Kirkby Lunn
1910 Emil Sauer
1912 Pablo Casals Harold Bauer Luisa Tetrazzini
1914 Muriel Foster
1916 Vladimir de Pachmann
1921 Henry Wood
1922 Alexander Mackenzie
1932 Alfred Cortot
1925 Frederick Delius Edward Elgar
1928 Thomas Beecham
1930 Ralph Vaughan Williams Gustav Holst
1931 Arnold Bax
1932 Sergey Rachmaninov
1934 Edward German Hamilton Harty
1935 Jean Sibelius
1936 Richard Strauss
1937 Felix Weingartner Arturo Toscanini
1942 Myra Hess
1944 Sergey Prokofiev Adrian Boult
1947 William Walton
1950 John Barbirolli
1953 Kathleen Ferrier
1954 Igor Stravinsky
1957 Bruno Walter
1959 Malcolm Sargent
1961 Artur Rubinstein
1962 Yehudi Menuhin
1963 Arthur Bliss Pierre Monteux
1964 Lionel Tertis Benjamin Britten
1966 Dmitri Shostakovich
1967 Zoltán Kodály
1974 Vladimir Horowitz
1975 Olivier Messiaen
1976 Michael Tippett
1980 Clifford Curzon
1984 Herbert von Karajan
1986 Andres Segovia Witold Lutoslawski
1987 Leonard Bernstein
1989 Georg Solti
1990 Claudio Arrau Janet Baker Bernard Haitink Sviatoslav Richter
1991 Isaac Stern
1992 Alfred Brendel
1994 Colin Davis
1995 Elliott Carter Rafael Kubelik
1997 Pierre Boulez
2000 Placido Domingo Simon Rattle
2002 Joan Sutherland
2003 Claudio Abbado
2004 György Ligeti
2005 Charles Mackerras
2007 Daniel Barenboim
2008 Henri Dutilleux
2009 Thomas Quasthoff
2010 Nikolaus Harnoncourt
2012 Mitsuko Uchida
2013 György Kurtág András Schiff
2014 John Tomlinson
2015 Martha Argerich Antonio Pappano
2016 Peter Maxwell Davies
2017 Charles Dutoit Mariss Jansons
2018 Jessye Norman
2019 Sofia Gubaidulina
2020 John Williams
2021 Vladimir Jurowski
2023
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