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- Award of the Capital City of Warsaw (1948)
- State Award, Second Rank (1952)
- Award of the President of the Council of Ministers for creativity for children (1954)
- State Award, First Rank (1955)
- First Prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (1959)
- Award of the Polish Composers’ Union (1959)
- First Prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (1962)
- Award of the Minister of Art and Culture, First Rank (1962)
- International Music Council and Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Vienna 1963)
- First Prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (1964)
- Koussevitzky Prize (1964)
- State Award, First Rank (1964)
- Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Ch. Cross (Paris 1965)
- Alfred Jurzykowski Prize (New York 1966)
- Herder Prize (Vienna 1967)
- Sonning Prize (Copenhagen 1967)
- First Prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (1968)
- Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Ch. Cross (Paris 1971)
- Ravel Prize (Paris 1971)
- Sibelius Prize (Helsinki 1973)
- Award of the Polish Composers’ Union (1973)
- Koussevitzky Prize (1976)
- Award of the Capital City of Warsaw (1976)
- State Award, First Rank (1978)
- International Record Critic’s Award (Geneva 1979)
- Artistic Award of the Independent Culture Committee of NSZZ “Solidarność” (Independent Self-Governed Labour Union “Solidarity”) (1983)
- Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (Munich 1983)
- Grawemeyer Award (Louisville 1985)
- Queen Sophia Prize for Music Composition (Madrid 1985)
- International Record Critic’s Award (London 1986)
- Koussevitzky Prize (1986)
- Signature Award of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Pittsburgh 1991)
- Incorporated Society of Musicians (Manchester 1992)
- Kyoto Prize in Art (Kyoto 1993)
- Polar Music Prize (Stockholm 1993)
- Royal Philharmonic Society (London 1993)
- Classical Music Award (London 1994)
- Polonia Restituta Knight’s Cross (1953)
- Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the Polish People’s Republic (1955)
- Order of the Banner of Work, Second Class (1955)
- Order of the Banner of Work, First Class (1959)
- Golden Honorable Distinction of the City of Warsaw (1967)
- Honorable Distinction of the City of Poznań (1973)
- Medal of the 30th Anniversary of the Polish People’s Republic (1974)
- Order of the Builders of People’s Poland (1977)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society (1985)
- Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation Medal (1992)
- Medal of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg 1993)
- Pour le Mérite Order (Bonn 1993)
- Order of the White Eagle (1994)
- Cleveland Institute of Music (1971)
- University of Warsaw (1973)
- Northwestern University (1974)
- Lancaster University (1975)
- University of Glasgow (1977)
- Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (1980)
- University of Durham (1983)
- Jagiellonian University in Cracow (1984)
- Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio (1987)
- Queen’s University Belfast (1987)
- University of Cambridge (1987)
- Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (1988)
- New England Conservatory of Music in Boston (1990)
- Université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg (1990)
- Duquesne University in Pittsburgh (1991)
- McGill University in Montreal (1993)
- Member of Kungliga Svenska Musikaliska Akademien in Stockholm (1963)
- Honorary Member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg (1966)
- Special Member of the Akademie der Künste in West Berlin (1968)
- Corresponding Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste in East Berlin (1971)
- Corresponding Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in Munich (1973)
- Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York (1974)
- Honorary Member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York (1974)
- Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London (1976)
- Corresponding Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1978)
- Honorary Member of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome
- Association des Artistes Musiciens Polonais en France
- Association of Professional Composers in London
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London
- International Music Council
- International Society for Contemporary Music
- Konzerthausgesellschaft in Vienna
- International Society for Contemporary Music, Polish Section
- Association of Authors “ZAiKS”
- Norwegian Society of Composers
- Polish Composers’ Union