The Traetta Prize () is an award assigned by the Traetta Society in recognition of achievements in the rediscovery of the roots of European music. The prize, conceived and promoted by the architect Gianfranco Spada, owes its name to the composer Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779) and is awarded each year during the Traetta Week, a festival dedicated to the composer that takes place during the eight days between the day of his birth to that of his death. (30 March – 6 April)
Traetta was one of the main composers of the Neapolitan School, who despite the huge success in life for his compositions has been unjustly unrecognised, along with other composers of the time, for his contribution to classical music by the music historiography of German origin, who founded the basics of classical music mostly on Germanic authors.
The objective of the Prize is to reward people who have committed themselves in expanding the knowledge of the musical production of the eighteenth century. The Prize borrows the name of Traetta as a symbol of a large list of composers unjustly forgotten such as Leonardo Vinci, Pasquale Anfossi, Antonio Sacchini, Nicola Vaccai, Leonardo Leo, Domenico Cimarosa or Vicente Martín y Soler among others.
Winners 2026 - Les Talens Lyriques, France 2025 – Paul Atkin, England 2024 – Philippe Jaroussky, France 2023 – Benjamin David, Switzerland 2022 – Luca Bianchini and Anna Trombetta, Italy 2021 – Núria Rial, Spain 2020 – Diego Fasolis, Switzerland 2019 – Olga Peretyatko, Russia 2018 – Jenny Drivala, Greece 2017 – Mathias Augustyniak + Michael Amzalag, France 2016 – Werner Schroeter, Germany 2015 – Bejun Mehta, US 2014 – María Bayo, Spain 2013 – Christophe Rousset, France 2012 – Alan Curtis, US 2011 – René Jacobs, Belgium 2010 – Jolando Scarpa, Italy 2009 – Mario Moretti, Italy
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