the New York Philharmonic. Personal life Schreier was married and lived in Dresden from 1945 until his death, in the district of Loschwitz. He died in Dresden on Christmas Day, 25 December 2019, after a long illness. He was survived by his wife, Renate, and two sons, Torsten and Ralf. The funeral service took place at the Kreuzkirche, Dresden on 8 January 2020. Evaluation Schreier was an extremely intelligent singer, with sympathetic feeling for the text. Monika Grütters, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, summarised after his death that he was one of the most impressive voices from Germany (""), who represented Germany in the opera houses of the world as a nation of culture (""), remembered as the Evangelist in Bach's Passions, and having written music history in a career of four decades. Honours and awards Kammersänger (title conferred to singers of outstanding merit) by the governments of the GDR, Austria and Bavaria, 1963, 1980, 1982 National First Class Prize of the GDR, 1967 Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau, 1969 Handel Prize of the City of Halle, 1972 National Prize of the GDR, 1972 Gold Vaterländischer Verdienstorden, 1984[5] Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 1988 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Denmark, 1988 Honorary membership of the Musikverein Wien (Vienna Society of Music), 1986 Star of People's Friendship, 1989 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, 1989 Bundesverdienstkreuz I. Klasse (Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany), 1993 Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, 1993 Wiener Flötenuhr, 1994 Georg Philipp Telemann Prize of the city of Magdeburg, 1994 German Bible Prize, for service in the great Passions and Interpretation of the work of J.S. Bach, 1998 European Church Music Prize, 2000 Honorary citizen of the city of Meissen for efforts in fundraising for the city's restoration Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize, 2009 Hugo Wolf Medal, Hugo Wolf Academy, Stuttgart, 2011 International Mendelssohn Prize of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation, Leipzig, 2011 Bach Medal, Bach Festival Leipzig, for interpretation of Bach, 2013 Sächsischer Verdienstorden, 2016 Kunstpreis der Landeshauptstadt Dresden, 2016 Discography The German National Library holds recordings by Schreier, including: As singer 80th Anniversary Edition, Berlin Classics (Edel) 2015 Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (Evangelist and arias), conducted by Karl Richter, Archiv Produktion (Universal Music) 1989 Johannes-Passion, conducted by Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, RCA Classic (Sony Music) 1998 Weihnachtsoratorium, conducted by Martin Flämig, Dresdner Philharmonie,