Prize laureates 1975 - 2005

Composers
Performers
Musicologists
Educators
Institutions

Composers
1975	Dimitri Shostakovich (Russia)
1977	Tikhon Khrennikov (Russia)
1979	Leonard Bernstein (USA) Jan Cikker (Czechoslovakia)
1981	Alberto Ginastera (Argentina)
1985	Oliver Messiaen (France) Witold Lutoslawski (Poland)
1987	Henri Dutilleux (France)
1991	Toru Takemitsu (Japan)
1993	Krzysztof Penderecki (Poland)
1996	György Ligeti (Hungary)
1998	Iannis Xenakis (France)
1999	Emmanuel Nunes (Portugal)
2005	Mikis Theodorakis (Greece)

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Performers
1975	Yehudi Menuhin (USA) Ravi Shankar (India)
1977	Ephraim Amu (Ghana) Benny Goodman (USA) Riad Soumbati (Egypt)
1979	Mohamed Kobanje (Iraq) Sviatoslav Richter (Russia) Bernard Heinze (Australia)
1981	Tariq A. Hakeem (Saudi Arabia) Bartok Quartet (Hungary)
1983	Herbert von Karajan (Austria) Claudio Arrau (Chile)
1987	Daniel Barenboim (Israel)
1989	Munir Bashir (Iraq)
1993	Miriam Makeba (South Africa)
1995	Alicia de Larrocha (Spain) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Pakistan)
1996	Mercedes Sosa (Argentina)
1997	Frans Brüggen (Netherlands)
1998	Cesaria Evora (Cabo Verde)
1999	Alim Qasimov (Azerbaijan)
2000	Oscar Peterson (Canada)
2001	Gidon Kremer (Latvia) Oumou Sangaré (Mali)
2002	Maria Joao Pires (Portugal)
2004	Youssou N'Dour (Senegal)

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Musicologists
1977	Luis Heitor Correa de Azevedo (Brazil)
1979	Zofia Lissa (Poland)
1981	Alain Daniélou (France) Kwabena Nketia (Ghana) Trân Van Khê (Vietnam)
1985	Paul Collaer (Belgium)
1991	Jacques Chailley (France)

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Educators
1979	Nadia Boulanger (France)
1994	I Made Bandem (Indonesia)
1997	Frank Callaway (Australia)

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Institutions
1981	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
1983	Royal Swedish Academy of Music (Sweden)
1989	International Federation of Jeunesses Musicales
1991	Gaudeamus Foundation (Netherlands)
1993	Fundación del estado para la orquesta nacional juvenil de Venezuela European Federation of Young Choirs - Europa Cantat
1994	International Bach Academy Stuttgart (Germany)
1996	Paul Sacher Foundation (Switzerland)
1997	Arab and Mediterranean Music Centre "Ennejma Ezzahra" (Tunisia)
1998	Khongisa Youth Centre for Performing Arts, Music and Theatre (Republic of South Africa) Manuel de Falla Archives Foundation (Spain)
2002	Oman Centre for Traditional Music