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The first prize was US$ 5,000, the second prize was $ 2,500 (originally $ 2,000), the third prize was $ 1,000, and the fourth prize was $ 500. There was no fourth prize until 1984, and the third prize was originally $ 500. The winners were narrowed down from often over 100 entries, to four or five
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Performing Arts. The award alternated every other year between orchestral and chamber music.
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From 1978 to 1995, 18 Friedheim Awards concerts were performed, drawn from 1,883 submissions, and a total of $ 158,500 in cash prizes was distributed to 70 American composers.
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magazine and a patron of the arts, and funded by the Eric
Friedheim Foundation and the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund. He endowed the award in honor of his father, the pianist
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127:Claus Adams
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