Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Gold Goethe medal

Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg

Berliner Bär

Praemium Imperiale

Frankfurter Musikpreis

Brahms-Preis

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement

Ernst Reuter Medal

Knight of the Legion of Honour

Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal

Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau

Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order

Ernst von Siemens Music Prize

doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University

Friedrich-Rückert-Preis

Léonie Sonning Music Prize

Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Berliner Kunstpreis

honorary citizen of Berlin

Pour le Mérite

Honorary doctor of the Heidelberg University

Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany