Knight of the Legion of Honour
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
honorary citizen of Berlin
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ernst Reuter Medal
Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg
Praemium Imperiale
Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Berliner Kunstpreis
Gold Goethe medal
Friedrich-Rückert-Preis
Honorary doctor of the Heidelberg University
Brahms-Preis
Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Frankfurter Musikpreis
Berliner Bär