Silke Leopold honored with the Schütz Prize
Musicologist Silke Leopold has been awarded the International Heinrich Schütz Prize 2024 for her great services to the study of Baroque music and her achievements as a mediator of music-historical knowledge.
Silke Leopold's research, teaching and mediation have always been characterized by a lively and mission-conscious fascination for music, writes the Schütz Music Festival. Her "groundbreaking studies on baroque music on a Europe-wide scale have enriched the specialist discourse and, thanks to her precise and catchy art of formulation, they open up the musical world of the baroque period not only to specialists, but also very successfully to a broad readership".
Her research and commitment impressively demonstrated that this heritage, with its cosmopolitanism, multilingualism, curiosity and tolerance, could be used to find and develop rich starting points for a happy future for Central Germany.
Since 2018, the Heinrich Schütz Music Festival has awarded the prize to personalities, ensembles, facilities and institutions that "distinguish themselves through excellent artistic and scientific achievements and merits in the interpretation, lively communication and widespread dissemination of the oeuvre of Heinrich Schütz and the music of his time, as well as through an outstanding commitment to its sustainable preservation and promotion".
