Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
Medal for Merit to Culture
Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna
Theodor W. Adorno Award
Praemium Imperiale
Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Glenn Gould Prize
Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Berliner Kunstpreis
Grawemeyer Award
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Grammy Award
Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
Polar Music Prize
Wolf Prize in Arts
Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
Edison Award
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music
Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Grand Cross of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword
honorary doctor of the Royal College of Music
Honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel