page_title: Claudio Abbado
section_title: Selected honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Claudio Abbado / Selected honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Collectie / Archief&#160;: Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie&#160;: [ onbekend ] Beschrijving&#160;: Claudio Abbado (dirigent) krijgt AVRO's publieksprijs Klassiek 81; Claudio Abbado met trofee Datum&#160;: 12 augustus 1982 Trefwoorden&#160;: dirigenten, trofeeën Persoonsnaam&#160;: Abbado, Claudio Instellingsnaam&#160;: AVRO Fotograaf&#160;: Croes, Rob C. / Anefo Auteursrechthebbende&#160;: Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort&#160;: Negatief (zwart/wit) Nummer archiefinventaris&#160;: bekijk toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer&#160;: 932-2754
context_page_description: Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian conductor. He served at various times as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.
context_section_description: Koussevitzky Prize, 1958
  Dimitri Mitropoulos Memorial International Competition, 1963 (Won the one-year position as assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic.)
  Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 12 July 1984
  Mahler Medal, 1985
  Grand cross of the Légion d'honneur, 1986
  Knight Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1992
  Medal for Meritorious for Culture and Art, 13 January 1997
  City of Vienna, Ehrenring [Honor ring], 1994
  Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 1994
  Praemium Imperiale, 2003
  Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, 2003
  Abbado received honorary doctorates from the universities of Ferrara (1990), Cambridge (1994), Aberdeen (1986) and Havana.
  On 30 August 2013, Giorgio Napolitano, the President of Italy, appointed Abbado to the Italian Senate as a Senator for life, in honour of his "outstanding cultural achievements". Abbado became a member of the Public Education and Cultural Heritage Commission of the Italian Senate on 25 September 2013.
caption: Claudio Abbado in 1982
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