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Is there a Nobel Prize for Music?

No. Nobel died in Italy on December 10, 1896. A year before his death, he left a will. In his will, he proposed to use part of his inheritance (31 million Swedish krona, equivalent to US$9.2 million at the time) as a fund. The fund would be placed in low-risk investments, and its annual profits and interest would be divided into physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and The Five Peace Prizes are awarded to people or organizations from all over the world who have made significant contributions to mankind in these fields. Accordingly, the Swedish government approved the establishment of the Nobel Foundation in June 1900, and the Nobel Prize was awarded for the first time on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of Nobel's death. Since then, except for interruptions due to wartime, grand award ceremonies have been held on this day every year in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, and Oslo, the capital of Norway. In 1968, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the CCB, the Swedish Central Bank provided funds to add the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (full name: "Swedish Central Bank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Bernd Nobel", also known as "Nobel Economics Prize"). Award"), and began to be awarded simultaneously with the other five awards in 1969. The selection principle of the Nobel Prize in Economics is to award those who have made significant valuable contributions in the field of economic research, with priority given to those who have made significant early contributions.

So far, the Nobel Prize has the current physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economics prizes, but no music prize.