was the third most performed contemporary composer in the world in 2018, behind Arvo Pärt and John Williams. Awards 1996 1997 Bayerischer Staatspreis für junge Künstler 1999 Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music from the Forberg-Schneider Foundation 2002 Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2002 Schneider-Schott Music Prize 2003 Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize 2003–2004 award of the magazine Opernwelt: "most important premiere of the season: Das Gesicht im Spiegel" 2004 Arnold Schönberg Prize 2006 Kompositionspreis of the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg for Second Labyrinth 2006 Claudio-Abbado-Kompositionspreis of the Orchester-Akademie of the Berlin Philharmonic for Quintet for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano 2007 Prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation 2009 Stoeger Prize of the New York Chamber Music Society 2010 Marsilius Medal of the Heidelberg University 2013 Heidelberger Frühling Music Award 2013 German Music Authors' Prize (Composition Symphonic) 2018 Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music Mainz 2018 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art 2019 , "Composer of the year" for ARCHE 2021 Musikpreis der Landeshauptstadt München 2021 Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany 2023 Honorary doctorate University of Limerick Memberships 2003 Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study 2005 Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste 2007 Member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg 2007 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste 2016 Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz Works Widmann's works are published by Schott Music. Absences, Schuloper (1990) Kreisleriana, concert piece for violin and chamber orchestra (1993) Fantasie for Solo Clarinet (1993) First String Quartet (1997) Five Fragments for clarinet and piano (1997) Nachtstück (Nightpiece) for piano, clarinet and cello (1998) Fever Fantasy for piano, string quartet and clarinet (with bass clarinet) (1999) Implosion for orchestra (2001) Light Study I for orchestra (2001) ad absurdum for trumpet and small orchestra (2002) Free Pieces for ensemble (2002) Toccata for piano (2002) Second String Quartet (Chorale Quartet) (2003) Hall Study for piano (2003) Das Gesicht im Spiegel (The Face in the Mirror), opera in 16 scenes, libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig (2003) Third String Quartet (Hunting Quartet) (2003) Lied for orchestra (2003) Chor for orchestra (2004) Skeleton for percussion (2004) Light Studies (I-VI) for violin, viola, accordion, clarinet, piano and orchestra (2004) Octet for clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass (2004) Fourth String Quartet (2005) Experiment on a Fugue (Fifth String Quartet with