Mendelssohn Scholarship

The Mendelssohn Prize ( Felix Mendelssohn -Bartholdy - State Scholarship, also: Mendelssohn State Prize ) was from 1879 to 1936 an endowed the Prussian state, annual scholarship to promote the training of talented musicians.

History

On 23 Januar/20. February 1878, a contract was made between the heirs of music director Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Royal Prussian Treasury closed: the heirs are the posthumous manuscripts of her father the Prussian Treasury, while he undertakes a permanent annual pension of 3,150 marks "as one of training more capable and aspiring musicians without distinction of age, gender, religion and nationality to provide certain Scholarship Foundation through the state budget budget " the Board of Trustees consisted of the respective director of the Academy of Music in Berlin, from one of Ministry for a period of three years to be appointed a member and an additional member selected by the first two.

1899 gave Ernst von Mendelssohn -Bartholdy and the brothers Franz and Robert von Mendelssohn Foundation a capital of 30,000 marks, which thus received the rights of a legal person. Between 1921 and 1924, the foundation rested due to inflation. By 1936 Prussia paid the 1878 contractual pension of 3,150 marks. From 1937, the amount was converted along with other foundations in a " Prussian State Scholarship for Musicians ". Until 1944 the Foundation amounts in securities have been created.

In 1963, the foundation of the establishment of " Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize ( Mendelssohn Prize ) " of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has been brought back to life.

Conditions

Every year 2 training grants were awarded: one for composers, one for performers Musicians. The claims of Mendelssohn scholars were very high; the actual scholarship (the Great Mendelssohn Prize ) in the amount of 1,500 marks was not awarded several times (1913, 1915, 1918) or shared (1912, 1914). In addition, free honorable mentions were distributed and made ​​donations ( and between 100 and 350 marks ). The " Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - state scholarships " only considered candidates that were at least half a year student at a state- supported education institution. Exceptions were made in the Prussian nationals.

Curators

Award winner for composition

Performers Musicians

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