Bärenreiter-Verlag
| Bärenreiter-Verlag Karl Vötterle GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | April 12, 1924 |
| Seat | Kassel , Germany |
| management |
Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle Leonhard Scheuch (Management) |
| Number of employees | 140 |
| Branch | Music publisher |
| Website | www.baerenreiter.com |
The Bärenreiter is a publisher for classical music , headquartered in Kassel . In addition to sheet music for musicians, the publisher also publishes an extensive series of books. Bärenreiter has 140 employees, most of them in Kassel. He also has offices in Basel , London , New York City and Prague ( Bärenreiter Praha ). The company is managed by Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle and Leonhard Scheuch .
As a joint edition between Bärenreiter and Metzler , the German-language musicological encyclopedia is published, The music in past and present . Musicological yearbooks such as the Schütz yearbook have also been part of the publishing program since 1979.
The publication of contemporary music was part of the publishing program from the start. Today works by composers such as Dieter Ammann , Beat Furrer , Rudolf Kelterborn , Giselher Klebe , Philipp Maintz , Matthias Pintscher , Charlotte Seither , Miroslav Srnka , Manfred Trojahn and Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini appear in this house.
history
1923 to 1940
The publishing house was founded in 1923 by Karl Vötterle in Augsburg . Among the first publications were the "Finkensteiner Blätter", edited by Walther Hensel . In 1927 the publishing house moved to Kassel.
When the publisher's founder Karl Vötterle published the first song sheets, the great composers of the Classical, Romantic and Modern periods were already in the firm hands of the traditional publishers in Leipzig and Mainz. New trends were in demand: sheet music for the youth music movement , for recorder and organ , the rediscovery of Heinrich Schütz and the music before Bach and above all the idea of the scientific-critical complete editions of the works of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Schubert and others soon closed Bärenreiter one of the greats among the music publishers. The implementation of the complete editions in sheet music for musical practice forms the foundation of the publishing program to this day. All areas of classical music - piano music, chamber music, symphonic, opera, singing, choral music - are represented. But also house and everyday music as well as new discoveries in the field of liturgical music (e.g. Quempas 1930, today's total edition: 3 million copies) were and are the building blocks of the house's success. In 1932 he started working with Hugo Distler . In 1933 the working group for house music (later the international working group for music ) was founded, which organized the first “Kassel Music Days” in autumn. In 1936 the series Das Erbe deutscher Musik was founded.
From 1929 to around 1950 the publisher also had its own recorder series built (recorder choirs from sopranino to large bass, solo flutes as alto and soprano as well as school flutes made of colo material).
1940 to 1960
In 1944 the Bärenreiter-Verlag was founded in Basel because the Kasseler Verlag was threatened with closure. In 1945 the publishing house in Kassel was destroyed by air raids . The first volumes of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart were published in 1949 . In 1950 the Bärenreiter-Verlag took over the Hinnenthal-Verlag. The “Hortus Musicus” series with works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods began to appear. In 1952 Bärenreiter took over Nagels Musikverlag (Celle). In 1954 the first two volumes of the New Bach Edition appear . Work on the New Mozart Edition now began . In 1955 the Alkor Edition (formerly Brucknerverlag, founded in 1934) became part of the Bärenreiter-Verlag. The first volume of the Halle Handel edition appeared, followed by the first volume of the Mozart edition and the new edition of all of Heinrich Schütz's works . Since then the publisher has worked with Ernst Krenek . In 1957 Bärenreiter took over Gustav Bosse Verlag . In 1958 Bärenreiter New York was founded, in 1960 the record company "Bärenreiter-Musicaphon".
1960 to 1980
In 1962 Editions Bärenreiter Sàrl., Paris (1971–1980 in Tours) was founded. The edition Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Letters and Records (7 volumes up to 1975) was launched. In 1963 Bärenreiter Ltd. London (today in Harlow / Essex) founded. In 1964 a Schubert edition came out. In 1965 the company Disco-Center was founded for the Bärenreiter labels “Cantate” and “Musicaphon” as well as for over thirty other record companies. In 1966 the first volume of Franz Berwald's complete works was published. In 1967 the New Berlioz Edition appeared. In 1971 the collaboration with the German paperback publishing house began. In 1975 Karl Vötterle died. Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle has now become a managing partner. In 1976 Leonhard Scheuch joined the management. Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann was performed for the first time in the new edition by Fritz Oeser in the Alkor Edition at the Vienna Volksoper. In 1977 Franz Schubert's songs began to be published in collaboration with G. Henle Verlag . The first volumes of the complete edition of Leoš Janáček's works appeared in 1979 (coproduction with Edition Supraphon Praha).
1980 to 2000
In 1988 Bärenreiter took over the Süddeutscher Musikverlag. In 1991 the main series (volumes of music) of the Mozart edition were completed. At the same time, the paperback edition was published in 20 volumes. The stage distributor Henschel Musik was taken over. Nakladatelstvi Bärenreiter Praha was founded and the privatization of Edition Supraphon Praha began. The Bach edition and the Halle Handel edition, which had previously appeared in coproduction with the Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig, were continued by Bärenreiter on their own after the reunification. In 1992 the solennelle trade fair was rediscovered by Hector Berlioz . In 1993 the Gustav Bosse Verlag relocated to Kassel. In 1994 the first volume of the factual part of the second edition of the music lexicon The Music in Past and Present was published . In 1995 the complete edition of the works of Niels Wilhelm Gade began (co-production with Engstrøm & Sødring). In 1996 the complete edition of the works of Orlando di Lasso was completed. In 1997, the new edition of the Beethoven symphonies started by Jonathan Del Mar . In addition, the Johann Strauss Complete Edition was published in collaboration with the Strauss Edition Vienna. In 1998 Bärenreiter-Verlag bought shares in Editio Supraphon Praha. In 2000 the main part of the New Bach Edition was completed.
2000 to 2009
As a result of a collaboration between the Société Jean-Philippe Rameau (Paris) and the Bärenreiter-Verlag, Anacréon was published in 2004 , the first volume of the Rameau Complete Edition (Opera omnia). In 2005 the aria “Alles mit Gott und nothing without him” was rediscovered by JS Bach and published as a practical edition and facsimile. Bärenreiter took over the distribution of the new Critical Edition of the Complete Works by Sergei Rachmaninoff . In the Mozart year 2006, the complete Mozart edition was again available. The Mozart edition . Letters and Notes was published in an eight-volume paperback edition (in collaboration with dtv ). The New Berlioz Edition has been completed, as have the Bach Edition and the Mozart Edition. Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle received an honorary professorship from the State of Hesse in 2007. In 2007, Bärenreiter was awarded the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize of the state capital of Magdeburg for his services to the publication and distribution of Georg Philipp Telemann's work. In May 2008, after 29 volumes, the encyclopedia The Music in Past and Present (MGG) was completed with a supplementary volume . In 2008 and 2009 the first volumes of two new major projects will be published: the complete edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's letters and the edition of all vocal works by the baroque composer Johann Pachelbel .
2010 to 2019
The publishing house begins with the publication of the complete edition of Gabriel Fauré's works (2010). In 2011 Clemens Scheuch became a member of the management team at Bärenreiter-Verlag. In 2012 Bärenreiter and Henschel Verlag (Leipzig) enter into a partnership in the publication of music books. In the same year the first volume of Edition Francesco Cavalli - Opere with operas by the Italian baroque composer Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676) appears. 2013 begins with the opera Prima la musica e poi le parole by Giambattista Casti (libretto) and Antonio Salieri (music) the edition project “OPERA - spectrum of European music theater in individual editions”. Each volume contains the printed score as well as a data carrier (Edirom) with the score, sources (sheet music and text) and a critical report. In March 2014, the publisher presented the first independent digital product. With the “Bärenreiter Study Score Reader” an app has been developed that makes it possible to study the scores of numerous works of music history on the iPad . The app is available from the Apple iTunes Store. In 2015, e-books were also offered for the first time. Since November 2016, the second edition of the music encyclopedia “ Music in Past and Present ” (MGG) has been available as an online database on the Internet platform “MGG Online” (based on the 2nd edition from 1994–2008) . Bärenreiter is cooperating with RILM and the JB Metzler publishing house. A new major project was also started this year: the historical-critical publication of all instrumental works by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns .
Personalities
literature
- Literature by and about Bärenreiter-Verlag in the catalog of the German National Library
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