Franco Abbiati Prize Explained

The Franco Abbiati Prize (Italian: Premio Franco Abbiati della critica musicale italiana) is an annual award that has been presented by the National Association of Music Critics in Italy since 1980.^[1] Named after the Italian musicologist Franco Abbiati, past winners of the award have included Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Myung-whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sergiu Celibidache, John Eliot Gardiner, Leonidas Kavakos, Carlos Kleiber, Evgeny Kissin, Radu Lupu, Zubin Mehta, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti, Maurizio Pollini, András Schiff, Grigory Sokolov, Jeffrey Tate, Arcadi Volodos, and Krystian Zimerman, among many others.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Myung-Whun Chung awarded the Premio Abbiati. Holt. Askonas. 2015-05-06. Askonas Holt. en-US. 2019-03-30.
2. Web site: ● 1980–1989. 2014-07-10. » ● 1980–1989. it-IT. 2019-03-30. 2020-02-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20200205000956/http://www.criticimusicali.it/?page_id=189. dead.
3. Web site: ● 1990–1999. 2014-07-10. » ● 1990–1999. it-IT. 2019-03-30.
4. Web site: ● 2000–2009. 2014-07-10. » ● 2000–2009. it-IT. 2019-03-30. 2021-06-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624192221/http://www.criticimusicali.it/?page_id=231. dead.
5. Web site: ● 2010–2018. 2014-07-18. » ● 2010–2018. it-IT. 2019-03-30. 2019-03-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20190331033049/http://www.criticimusicali.it/?page_id=357. dead.