The International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (German: Internationaler Bach Wettbewerb Leipzig ) is a music competition in Leipzig , Germany, held by the Bach-Archiv Leipzig . It was founded in 1950 and was held every four years from 1964 to 1996 with five subjects and is now held every two years with three changing subjects violin / baroque violin, piano, harpsichord or in the fields of voice, cello / baroque violoncello and organ. From 1965 the competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Geneva.
6-483: Prizes for participants: The Prize winners have the right to use the title "Bach Prize Winners". Prize winners have included: President: Robert D. Levin (since 2002) Members of jury have included: Robert D. Levin Robert David Levin (born October 13, 1947) is an American classical pianist, musicologist , and composer. He was a professor of music at Harvard University from 1994 to 2014 and
12-841: The Fontainebleau School of Music in: After graduating from Harvard, Levin was named head of the theory department at the Curtis Institute of Music . He was subsequently appointed associate professor of music and coordinator of theory instruction at the SUNY Purchase , and full professor in 1975. From 1986 to 1993, he served as professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. In 1993 he became professor of music at his alma mater, Harvard University, where he remains Professor Emeritus. In 1994 he
18-639: The Classical period) in addition to music history and theory. He currently holds the position of Hogwood Fellow with the Academy of Ancient Music. Levin has completed or reconstructed a number of eighteenth-century works, especially unfinished compositions by Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach . His completions of several unfinished Mozart works, including the Requiem in D minor and Great Mass in C minor , are considered his most important achievements. In
24-582: The Mozart Requiem, he reconstructed an "Amen" fugue from Mozart's own sketches. John Eliot Gardiner commissioned him to write missing orchestral parts to five movements of cantatas by Bach, such as Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe . As a performer, he is best known as a soloist in Classical-era piano concertos in general, and those of Mozart and Beethoven in particular, in which he robustly re-creates performance practice of
30-762: The artistic director of the Sarasota Music Festival from 2007 to 2017. Born in Brooklyn , Levin attended the Brooklyn Friends School and Andrew Jackson High School , and spent his junior year studying music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He attended Harvard , where he earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in 1968 with a thesis entitled The Unfinished Works of W. A. Mozart . Levin took private lessons at Chatham Square Music School , Conservatoire National de Musique and
36-661: Was made Dwight P. Robinson Jr Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, and was a head tutor from 1998 to 2004. In 2012, as Humanitas Visiting Professor of chamber music at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge , he gave two lectures, Improvising Mozart and Composing Mozart and a concert with Academy of Ancient Music . Levin's academic career has included teaching and tutoring performance practice (especially involving keyboard instruments and conducting, with an emphasis on
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