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The Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award, short WDCA, is an international composition contest, as well as a music- and composition award designed by the German cultural society dieKunstBauStelle e. V. in Landsberg am Lech. It is named after the Jewish composer and conductor Wolf Durmashkin (1914–1944).
In 2018 its participants were awarded for the first time. The competition is held in irregular intervals and the award ceremony takes place in different cities each time. The locations are chosen based on their historical references to the competition.[1][2] In 2021 the ceremony is planned to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, the home of the competition's namesake.[3] The first-ever competition in 2018 was part of a themed festival week called 70 years – International Jewish-German festival and represented a new and interactive form of commemorative culture relating to the Holocaust.[4][5]
It was not only a cooperation between DieKunstBauStelle e. V. and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich and the Bavarian Philharmonic orchestra but was also supported internationally.[6][7]
The Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award is specifically targeted at newcomers and composers up to the age of 35.[8] Since all works of music premiere on the night of the ceremony, there are requirements concerning length and cast. Usually, three of all submitted works are awarded in total.
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- ^ Der Wettbewerb wird in Litauen fortgesetzt, Landsberger Tagblatt, 25 May 2019
- ^ '70 Jahre - Internationale Jüdische-Deutsche Festwoche' als eine neue, aktive Form der Erinnerungskultur an den Holocaust, Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, Projekte in den Förderprogrammen des BMEL, betreut durch den Projektträger BLE (ptble), retrieved 24 December 2020
- ^ Von der heilenden Kraft der Musik, Landsberger Tagblatt, Silke Feltes, 9 May 2020, retrieved 24 December 2020
- ^ Ein Kompositionspreis mit Potenzial, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, 7 October 2019, retrieved 21 December 2020
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- ^ A music competition as a pulpor for a new memory culture, dieKunstBaustelle, last update 1 March 2020, retrieved 7 February 2021