The 1983 Wolf Foundation Prize in the arts (music) — the first time a music prize has been awarded — will be shared among musicians from Israel, the United States and France, the Foundation has announced.
The three who will split the $100,000 award are Yosef Tal, 82, of Israel, who is a composer-pianist and pedagogue, Vladimir Horowitz, 79, of New York, a world-renowned pianist, and the 75-year-old French composer and music professor Olivier Messiaen.
Horowitz was awarded the prize for his “outstanding contributions to the art of musical interpretation and especially his musicalization of pianism.” Messiaen was cited for “inspired and inspiring extension of our world of sound.” A famous church organist, he was first named Professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatoire after being freed from German prisoner of war camp in 1942. Tal, born in Germany, served as head of the department of Musicology of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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