Goldene Mahler Medaille (Golden Mahler Medal)

Awarding of the Golden Mahler Medal to Eduard van Beinum by Erwin Ratz, President of the IGMS (1958)
Awarding of the Golden Mahler Medal to the Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam by Erwin Ratz, President of the IGMS (1958)

The Golden Mahler Medal has been awarded by the International Gustav Mahler Society (IGMS) since 1958. Originally awarded to promote the dissemination of Gustav Mahler’s work, the Golden Mahler Medal is awarded from 2024 by decision of an award committee to people or institutions that have made outstanding contributions to the scientific and/or artistic exploration of Mahler’s life and work and their development and reappraisal. People or institutions are also honored that have played a decisive role in shaping and enriching the international Mahler discourse in science and art through long-term institutional initiatives. The Golden Mahler Medal is the IGMS’s most important honor and can be awarded as an award for a life’s work as well as for an outstanding individual publication (monograph or article) or artistic achievement. It is to be awarded every two years from 2024. In April 2024, the criteria for the award were precisely defined by the society’s executive board.

Previous recipients of the Golden Mahler Medal

  • 1958  Carl Schuricht
  • 1958  Eduard van Beinum
  • 1958  Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam
  • 1958  Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orkest
  • 1958  Eduard Flipse
  • 1958  Herm. J. Nieman
  • 1960  Rafael Kubelik
  • 1960  Dimitri Mitropoulos
  • 1966  Utrecht Orkest
  • 1966  Dresdner Philharmonie
  • 1967  Leonard Bernstein
  • 1969  Wiener Symphoniker
  • 1971  Bernard Haitink
  • 1974  Kyrill Kondraschin
  • 1974  Joseph Krips
  • 1974  Hans Swarowsky
  • 1979  Residentie-Orkest Den Haag
  • 1980  Wiener Philharmoniker
  • 1980  Alice Strauss - posthum Franz Strauss
  • 1980  Christa Ludwig
  • 1980  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • 1980  Carlo Maria Giulini
  • 1981  Städtisches Symphonieorchester der Stadt Münster
  • 1981  Alfred Walter
  • 1982  Vaclav Neumann
  • 1982  Eleonore und Bruno Vondenhoff
  • 1984  Federico Sopeña Ibáñez
  • 1985  Claudio Abbado
  • 1985  George Alexander Albrecht
  • 1985  Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
  • 1987  Donald Mitchell
  • 1996  Marjana Lipovšek
  • 1996  Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
  • 1997  Edward R. Reilly
  • 1999  Thomas Hampson
  • 2005  Henry-Louis de La Grange
  • 2005  New York Philharmonic Orchestra
  • 2005  MahlerFest Colorado
  • 2005  Gustav Mahler Komitee Toblach
  • 2007  Vladimir Fedoseyev
  • 2007  Knud Martner
  • 2007  Peter Weiser
  • 2012  Jiří Rychetský
  • 2013  Reinhold Kubik
  • 2015  Erich Wolfgang Partsch
  • 2022  Frank Fanning