The Beethoven Prize of the city of Bonn was an international composition competition.
In 1959 Bonn's Lord Mayor Wilhelm Daniels announced the establishment of a Beethoven prize for "the best orchestral work of a young composer".
[1] No restrictions were made to genre, style and instrumentation of the composition.
[1] The prize was given every 3 years, the prize money was 25,000DM (1961: biennially, 5,000DM).
Other Beethoven Prizes existed in Vienna and Berlin.