G. Henle Verlag

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G. Henle Verlag

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legal form eK (sole trader)
founding October 20, 1948
Seat Munich , Germany
management Wolf-Dieter Seiffert
Number of employees 28
Branch Music publisher
Website www.henle.de

The Henle is a music publishing company that musical on the publication of original editions specializes. He has composers from different epochs in his program, especially composers from the Baroque to early modern times , whose works are no longer bound by copyright. In addition to the sheet music editions, G. Henle Verlag publishes complete editions of musicology, books, reference works and magazines. The publisher also offers the Urtext editions in digital form as an app for tablets.

history

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Founded on October 20, 1948 by Günter Henle with the approval of the American military government, the publishing house initially had locations in Duisburg and Munich. Under the leadership of its founder, the "ensuring the publication of original texts on a scientific basis for works of music, especially from the 18th and 19th centuries" was the company's aim from the start. The powder-blue cover color that is still used today was also determined, as well as the design of the title font by Joseph Lehnacker (1895–1965).

The university printing company H. Stürtz (Würzburg) was commissioned with the engraving for several decades, later other engravings in Leipzig and Darmstadt were added. Handcrafted note engraving was replaced by computer typesetting at the end of the 1990s.

The first published products were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's piano sonatas in two volumes, edited by Walter Lampe , and Franz Schubert's Impromptus and Moments Musicaux, edited by Walter Gieseking .

With these first editions, the publishing house took part in the first music fair in Detmold after the Second World War in 1949. In 1953, the editing department was set up with Ewald Zimmermann (1910–1998) as head of the Duisburg publishing house.

Because of Günter Henle's work in large-scale industry, the publisher was initially ridiculed as the “Klöckner music factory”, but it gradually developed into an important German music publisher. In 1955, the employees in Munich moved to a newly acquired publishing house at Schongauer Strasse 24.

After the establishment of the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne in 1955, in which Günter Henle played a key role, the publication of the first scientific edition of all of Joseph Haydn's works began, the volumes of which have since been published by G. Henle Verlag. As successor to Friedrich Joseph Schaefer (1907–1981), Martin Bente (* 1936) became commercial director in Munich in 1969. Three years later, in 1972, Henle founded the Günter Henle Foundation in Munich, which later became the owner of the publishing house. The chairman of the foundation was initially Henle himself and after his death Walter Keim (1979–1981); it was followed by Anne Liese Henle, wife of Günther Henle (1981–1994) and C. Peter Henle , son of Günter and Anne Liese Henle (1994–2016). Felix Henle, son of C. Peter Henle, has been chairman of the foundation's board of directors since 2016.

Urtext cover

In 1978 the publishing house acquired the current publishing house at Forstenrieder Allee 122 in Munich. Günter Henle died a year later, whereupon the Duisburg location was given up and the Munich branch was expanded with Martin Bente as the managing director of the publishing house.

In 1981, when the publisher presented itself at the first German Music Fair in Tokyo in Japan, G. Henle USA Inc. was founded in St. Louis , Missouri, initially as a joint venture in North America . From 1985 this sales branch was continued as the sole subsidiary of the Munich headquarters. Holger A. Siems (* 1942) became managing director - he had been sales manager of the publishing house since 1976. This branch was closed in 2007; since then the publisher has been represented in the North American market exclusively by the Hal Leonard Corporation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

At the first International Book Fair in Beijing in 1986, the publisher also presented itself in China; In 1995 he granted the first license for sheet music production to the Chinese state publisher People's Music Publishing House in Beijing. To this day, numerous Urtext editions by G. Henle Verlag have been published for the Chinese market with this license partner and Shanghai Music Publishing House .

In addition to the blue Urtext editions, Henle has also been issuing “study editions” as pocket scores in 17 × 24 cm format since 1995. In 2000 Wolf-Dieter Seiffert (* 1959), editor of the publishing house since 1990, succeeded Martin Bente in the publishing house management. In 1993 the publishing house was expanded to include an upper floor; In 2005 the ground floor was gutted and modernized.

Since 2016, the publisher has also been offering its Urtext editions in digital form as an app for iOS and Android tablets. The publisher's catalog now includes around 1,500 Urtext editions and around 750 scientific publications.

Publishing program

Publishing house in Forstenrieder Allee in Munich

Urtext editions

At the center of the G. Henle Verlag's program are the so-called Urtext editions set up for musical practice: scientifically and philologically developed, correct music texts with more or less detailed explanations of the music sources used (autographs, copies, early prints) and the reading choices . The program now covers almost the entire range of important piano music and smaller chamber music in Urtext: complete piano works by JS Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, J. Haydn, WA Mozart, Schubert, R. Schumann; in addition, numerous other selected piano works for two and four hands, organ works and a standard repertoire for duos and piano trios as well as for string quartet. In addition, there are complete song editions by Beethoven and Haydn and the essential song cycles by R. Schumann. Urtext editions in the smaller study format (study edition series) as well as some facsimile editions of composer's manuscripts are also part of the program.

Special publications and series

  • Joseph Haydn Works , ed. from the Joseph Haydn Institute Cologne. Munich, since 1958ff. Scientific complete edition of the works of Joseph Haydn. The 111-volume edition comprises 34 series. The issue is almost complete.
  • Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) , ed. under the patronage of the International Society for Musicology and the International Association of Music Libraries, Music Archives and Music Documentation Centers , Series B. Munich since 1960. RISM is a global catalog containing the musical, handwritten and printed sources preserved in all countries up to 1800 and should also be recorded. The systematic series B.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: works . Complete edition, ed. from the Beethoven Archive Bonn. Munich, since 1961 (publications by the Beethoven-Haus Bonn). The edition is laid out in 56 volumes. About half have appeared so far.
  • The heritage of German music , series of monuments on German music history, Early Romanticism section, ed. from the Music History Commission eV, Munich. Since 1964.
  • Haydn studies . Publications by the Joseph Haydn Institute Cologne, since 1965. The magazine appears at irregular intervals.
  • Catalogs of Bavarian Music Collections , ed. from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, since 1971.
  • Johannes Brahms. Thematic-bibliographical catalog raisonné , ed. by Margit L. McCorkle after joint preparatory work with Donald McCorkle, Munich 1984.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven. Correspondence . Complete edition, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Munich 1996–1998. Volumes 1–6 contain letters from 1783 to 1827, volume 7 the register. Volume 8 (documents, subject index) is in preparation.
  • Johannes Brahms. New edition of all works , ed. from the Johannes Brahms Complete Edition, Munich, in connection with the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. Munich, since 1996. Historical-critical new edition of the complete compositional works of Johannes Brahms with editorial management in Kiel. The edition is laid out in 65 volumes in 10 series.
  • Robert Schumann. Thematic-bibliographical catalog raisonné , ed. by Margit L. McCorkle , Munich 2003.
  • Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz and Rainer Cadenbach , 2 volumes, Munich 2009.
  • Max Reger catalog raisonné , ed. by Susanne Popp on behalf of the Max Reger Institute in collaboration with Alexander Becker, Christopher Grafschmidt, Jürgen Schaarwächter and Stefanie Steiner, Munich 2011.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven. Thematic-bibliographical catalog raisonné , edited by Kurt Dorfmüller, Norbert Gertsch and Julia Ronge with the collaboration of Gertraut Haberkamp and the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, revised and significantly expanded new edition of the catalog raisonné by Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm, Munich 2014.

Level of difficulty

In 2010 the publishing house commissioned Rolf Koenen to divide the piano literature into three levels of difficulty, each with three sub-classes; Ernst Schliephake did the same for the violin and András Adorján for the flute literature. The Prelude in C major from the Well-Tempered Clavier I was classified as "medium easy" (grade 2) and the Toccata op. 7 by Robert Schumann as "very difficult" (9). The subdivision is intended to facilitate the search for suitable pieces for a certain level of performance.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete edition of Joseph Haydn Werke (JHW) In: haydn-institut.de , accessed on October 26, 2017.
  2. ^ Johannes Brahms Gesamtausgabe eV Forschungsstelle Kiel In: brahmsausgabe.uni-kiel.de , accessed on October 26, 2017.