The composer Johannes Wiedenhofer, born in Munich in 2005, has been awarded the 2026 Fanny Mendelssohn Composition Prize. He began composing at the age of nine. He is currently studying music theory in Munich and composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under Johannes Maria Staud. Wiedenhofer has received numerous awards, including at “Jugend komponiert”, the Andreas Werckmeister Prize, a prize from the Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna, and the City of Freising’s Cultural Promo

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