he received the Grand Prix du Disque. In 1968 he was presented with the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis and also the Dutch Edison Award. In 1973, the Vienna Mozart Society awarded him the Mozart Medal. Abbado received the 1997 Grammy Award in the Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without conductor) category for "Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 1 With Finale 1921, Op. 24 No. 1" and the 2005 Grammy Award in the Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) category for "Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3" performed by Martha Argerich. In 2012, Abbado was voted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame that April, and in May, he received the conductor prize at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. Honours and awards Koussevitzky Prize, 1958 Dimitri Mitropoulos Memorial International Competition, 1963 (Won the one-year position as assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic.) Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 12 July 1984 Mahler Medal, 1985 Grand cross of the Légion d'honneur, 1986 City of Vienna, Ehrenring [Honor ring], 1994 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 1994 Medal for Meritorious for Culture and Art, 13 January 1997 Knight Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2002 Praemium Imperiale, 2003 Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, 2003 Wolff Prize in Arts, 2008 Abbado received honorary doctorates from the universities of Ferrara (1990), Cambridge (1994), Aberdeen (1986) and Havana. On 30 August 2013, Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy, appointed Abbado to the Italian Senate as a Senator for life, in honour of his "outstanding cultural achievements". Abbado became a member of the Public Education and Cultural Heritage Commission of the Italian Senate on 25 September 2013. Videography New Year's Eve Concert 1992: Richard Strauss Gala with Martha Argerich, Kathleen Battle, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt, Frederica von Stade and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kultur Video DVD, D4209, 2007 Hearing the Silence (Documentary), Berliner Philharmoniker, Lucerne Festival Orchestra. "Beethoven, Symphonies 3 & 9, Berliner Philharmoniker." Euroarts, 2 DVD set. Symphony No. 3 performed by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecelia, Rome, February, 2001. Symphony No. 9 performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, May, 2000 / August, 2002, in Munich. The DVD of Symphony NO. 3 offers "Conductor Camera" sequences, in which the orchestra's view of the conductor may be selected. Symphony 9 performers include Karita Mattila, soprano; Violetta Urmana, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Moser, tenor; Eike Wilm Schulte, baritone;