Franco Abbiati Prize

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The Franco Abbiati Prize (Italian : Premio Franco Abbiati della critica musicale italiana) is an annual award that has been presented by the National Association of Music Critics in Italy since 1980. [1] Named after the Italian musicologist Franco Abbiati, past winners of the award have included Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Myung-whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sergiu Celibidache, John Eliot Gardiner, Leonidas Kavakos, Carlos Kleiber, Evgeny Kissin, Radu Lupu, Zubin Mehta, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti, Maurizio Pollini, András Schiff, Grigory Sokolov, Jeffrey Tate, Arcadi Volodos, and Krystian Zimerman, among many others. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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