German music edition award
The German Music Edition Award BEST EDITION is a prize awarded annually by the German Music Publishers Association in Bonn since 2004 to music publishers , with which sheet music editions and music books of outstanding quality are awarded. This is intended to acknowledge the performance of those involved in production, but above all to address the public's awareness of quality.
The jury consists of:
- Marcus R. Bosch , General Music Director City of Aachen
- Wolfram Steinbeck , Professor of Historical Musicology, University of Cologne
- Michael Struck-Schloen, musicologist and critic, Windeck
- Iris Utikal, Chair for Typography and Layout, Cologne International School of Design
- Martin Wilkening, music critic, Berlin
- Daniela Zimmer, music dealer, Stuttgart
Employees of the publishing house are not permitted to be members of the jury, even if the publishing house concerned does not take part in the competition. All submitted works will be judged according to the following criteria:
- Overall graphic and editorial impression, whereby an editorial requirement must also be met
- special publishing service or idea
- Correctness and graphic quality of the score ( engraving , type, electronic notation, calligraphy )
- Cover design, front cover, page layout
- Print, paper, cover
Prize winners (2014-2017)
2014
- Manfred Schmitz , piano - first way to play according to chord symbols, AMA
- Antonio Salieri , Prima la musica e poi le parole, ed. by Thomas Betzwieser , Bärenreiter
- Rainer Nonnenmann , The Walk through the Cliffs, Breitkopf & Härtel
- 125 Party Pieces, Forum for Contemporary Music Leipzig
- Andreas Kuch and Indra Tedjasukmana , BEATBOX COMPLETE, Helbing
- Key 9/10 pupil's book, regional edition B, ed. by Wieland Schmid , Helbing
- Oskar Fried , songs, ed. by Alexander Gudron and Urs Liska , Sound-rel
- Krzysztof Penderecki , Cantate Domino, Schott
- Alban Berg , I. Dept .: Musical Works Vol. 2, Universal
2015
- Georg Kreisler , songs and chansons, ed. by Barbara Kreisler-Peters and Thomas A. Schneider , Schott
- Gabriel Fauré , Complete Songs, ed. by Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick , Peters
- Gioachino Rossini , Le comte Ory , ed. by Damien Colas , Bärenreiter
- Birgit Baude and Barbara Hintermeier , seniors make music: recorder, Schott
- Listening Lab - Materials for Teaching Music, Universal
- Johann Sebastian Bach , Complete Organ Works, ed. by David Schulenberg , Breitkopf & Härtel
- Heribert Henrich , Bernd Alois Zimmermann Catalog raisonné, Schott
- Open your mouth instead of closing your mouth! Women's movement in loud tones, CID / Fraen an Gender, furore
- Richard Filz and Ulrich Moritz , BodyGroove Advanced, Helbing
- I Himmelen, ed. by Hans Wülfing , Peters
2016
- Markus Detterbeck and Gero Schmidt-Oberländer , MusiX. The course book Musik 3, Helbing
- Peter Gülke , Music and Farewell, Bärenreiter
- Alban Berg , Seven early songs for voice and orchestra, ed. by Michael Kube , Breitkopf & Härtel
- Bohuslav Martinů , The Epic of Gilgamesh, ed. by Aleš Březina , Bear Rider
- Schumann-Briefedition Vol. I.4–7, correspondence between Clara and Robert Schumann 1831 to 1856, ed. by Anja Mühlenweg , Thomas Synofzik and Sophia Zeil , Dohr
- Beat Furrer , la bianca notte / the bright night, Bärenreiter
- Viktor Ullmann , The Emperor of Atlantis or The Denial of Death, ed. by Henning Brauel , Eulenburg
- A song says more than words, youth choir book for equal voices, ed. from the German Choir Association Pueri Cantores , Carus
- Mathias “Maze” Leber , Modern Pop Piano, Schott
- carus music, the choir app, Carus
2017
- François Couperin , Pièces de clavecin, ed. by Denis Herlin , Bärenreiter
- Choir book for the Evangelical Hymnal, ed. by Kay Johannsen and Richard Mailänder , Carus
- Love songs, songbook with sing-along CD, choir book, piano band, CDs, ed. by Mirjam James , Friedemann Luz and Frieder Bernius , Carus
- Pure women's matter !, 60 highlights for women's choir, ed. by Jürgen Faßbender, Uwe Henkhaus , Ernie Rhein and Jochen Stankewitz , Peters
- Johann Strauss (son) , Wiener Blut - Operetta in 3 acts, ed. by Michael Rot , Hermann
- Richard Strauss , Late Notes, ed. by Marion Beyer, Jürgen May and Walter Werbeck , Schott
- Pièces de Concours, Issues du répertoire du Conservatoire de Paris, ed. by Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot , Schott
- Walter Jurmann , Veronika, spring is here, ed. by Yvonne Jurmann , Schott