Matthijs Vermeulen Award

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The Matthijs Vermeulen Award is the most important Dutch composition prize.

It was named after the symfonic composers Matthijs Vermeulen, who deceased in 1967. It is awarded annually by the Amsterdams Foundation for the Arts. (The other important Dutch composition award, the Gaudeamus International Composers Award is given to Dutch and international composers).

De following Dutch composers received the award:

2004: Michel van der Aa (One)
2003: Richard Ayres (No. 36 NONcerto)
2002: Peter-Jan Wagemans (Moloch)
2001: Misha Mengelberg (Opera 2000)
2000: Richard Rijnvos (Times Square Dance)
1999: Ron Ford (Salome Fast)
1998: Klaas de Vries (A king, riding en Interludium for string orchestra)
1997: Ton de Leeuw (Three Shakespeare Songs)
1996: Diderik Wagenaar (Trois Poèmes; Prose)
1995: not awarded
1994: Dick Raaijmakers (Der Fall/Dépons; Die glückliche Hand - Geöffnet)
1993: Robert Heppener (Im Gestein)
1992: Louis Andriessen (M. is for Man, Music and Mozart; Facing Death, Dances, Hout en Lacrimosa)
1991: Klas Torstensson (Stick on Stick)
1990: Peter-Jan Wagemans (Rosebud)
1989: Jacques Bank (Requiem voor een levende)
1988: Joep Straesser (Über Erich M.)
1987: Gottfried Michael Koenig
1986: Theo Loevendie (Naima)
1985: Dick Raaijmakers (Extase)
1984: Guus Janssen (Ternet)
1983: Klaas de Vries (componist) (Discantus)
1982: Ton de Leeuw (Car mes vignes sont en fleur)
1981: Jan Boerman (gehele oeuvre)
1980: Jan van Vlijmen (Quatemi)
1979: Otto Ketting (Symphony for saxophones and orchestra)
1978: Jeugd en Muziek (Zeeland) / Leo Cuypers (Zeelandsuite)
1977: Louis Andriessen (De Staat)
1976: not awarded
1975: Tristan Keuris (Sinfonia)
1974: Willem Breuker (Het paard van Troje)
1973: Peter Schat (To You)
1972: Jan van Vlijmen (Omaggio a Gesualdo)