The Bach Medal () is awarded by the Lord Mayor of Leipzig during the Bachfest Leipzig in recognition of efforts to promote the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig is an annual award.
Jury Source:
Members of the artistic directorate of Bachfest Thomaskantor Rector of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig Gewandhauskapellmeister Intendant of Leipzig Opera
Recipients
2003 Gustav Leonhardt 2004 Helmuth Rilling 2005 Sir John Eliot Gardiner 2006 Ton Koopman 2007 Nikolaus Harnoncourt 2008 Hermann Max 2009 Frieder Bernius 2010 Philippe Herreweghe 2011 Herbert Blomstedt 2012 Masaaki Suzuki 2013 Peter Schreier 2014 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 2015 2016 Peter Kooij 2017 Reinhard Goebel 2018 Robert D. Levin 2019 Klaus Mertens 2020 Angela Hewitt 2021 Christoph Wolff and Hans-Joachim Schulze 2022 András Schiff 2023 Thomanerchor 2024 Andreas Staier 2025 Marcel Ponseele 2026 J. S. Bach-Stiftung St. Gallen
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