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Finest Urtext Editions of Classical Music since 1948. Mehrfach wurden seine Produkte mit dem Deutschen Musikeditionspreis ausgezeichnet.

Musiker in aller Welt kennen und schätzen die blauen Urtextausgaben: gedruckte Notenausgaben der großen klassischen Musik in herausragender Qualität. Ein Exportanteil von mittlerweile über 80% (Europa, USA, Asien) dokumentiert die starke internationale Ausrichtung. Urtext und Henle sind Synonyme, allerdings wird über den Begriff „Urtext“ seit seinem Auftreten immer wieder diskutiert. Dabei ist der

Leitgedanke einfach und plausibel: Dem Musiker wird ein Notentext geboten, der einzig und allein dem Willen des Komponisten entspricht. Als Marktführer mit langjähriger Erfahrung weist der Katalog derzeit über 1.000 Urtextausgaben von Bach bis Debussy, von Händel bis Gershwin auf. Jedes Henle-Exemplar muss hohen Qualitätsanforderungen gerecht werden:

- absolut zuverlässiger Notentext
- musikpraktische Einrichtung
- exzellentes Notenbild
- Vorwort in drei Sprachen (dt., engl., franz.)
- Kritischer Bericht in mindestens zwei Sprachen (dt., engl., meist auch frz.)
- langlebige Ausstattung (Papier, Bindung)

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Musicians throughout the world are familiar with and treasure our blue Urtext editions – top quality editions of great classical compositions. Our products have repeatedly been awarded the German Music Edition Prize. The fact that more than 80% of our editions are exported (Europe, USA, Asia) bears witness to our strong international focus. Urtext and Henle are synonymous, however the term “Urtext” has been debated ever since it was first used. Yet the idea behind it is simple and easy to understand: the musician is offered a musical text which solely reflects the composer’s intentions. As market leader with many years of experience, our catalogue currently lists more than 1.000 Urtext editions from Bach to Debussy, and from Handel to Gershwin.Each Henle edition has to fulfil extremely high standards:

- authoritative musical text
- markings for practical use
- superb engraving
- preface in three languages (German, English, French)
- critical commentary in at least two languages (German, English, generally also French)
- durability (paper, binding)

10/01/2025

Cold outside, cosy inside: it's time for stories again. Get your handkerchiefs ready, because today we are immersing ourselves in a tragic love story, musically designed by Enrique Granados in reference to motifs by the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, in particular to two etchings from the collection ‘Los caprichos’. As a musical foundation for the work the composer made use both of Spanish folk-songs and of simple melodies modelled on this style. Granados' so-called Goyescas, subtitled Los majos enamorados (The young people in love), is arranged as a cycle and tells the story of courtship, happiness in love and the tragic end with the death of the beloved in six scenes. The piano cycle was very successful and remains a quintessential portrayal of the Spanish spirit in relation to love’s desires and pains. It really warms the heart, give it a try:
https://www.henle.de/en/Goyescas-Los-majos-enamorados/HN-582
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07/01/2025

Now it's time for your big performance again, dear pianists aged 6 to 11! Look forward to taking part in this year's Henle piano competition on YouTube! This year you can choose a piece by your favorite composer from our “Piano Album – From Bach to Gershwin”! We are once again very excited to watch your musical contributions! Take part now until April 28, 2025! All information at https://www.henle.de/en/Henle-Piano-Competition/
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04/01/2025

Start the year with the soulful elegance of Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1, a piece that reminds us to embrace both the calm and the storms in life. Let this piece inspire you for the year ahead! Link to the edition: https://www.henle.de/en/Nocturne-c-minor-op.-48-no.-1/HN-663
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02/01/2025

Applications are now open until February 15, 2025. In celebration of the 150th birthday anniversary of Maurice Ravel, G. Henle Publishers is hosting a masterclass led by the world-renowned pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. The masterclass will take place from June 5 to June 8, 2025, in Munich, Germany, and is open to talented and aspiring pianists from around the world.
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Photo Pierre-Laurent Aimard: © Marco Borggreve***
Pierre-Laurent Aimard

31/12/2024

How good it is sometimes to start afresh! A new year is also a new chance to change things: to structure ourselves better – perhaps when practicing –, to venture into new territory – for example when choosing pieces – and not to be so easily distracted from practicing – by social media, for example 😉! So what are your New Year's resolutions? Whatever they are, our new sticky notes in the Henle Urtext look will help you not to forget them!
https://www.henle.de/en/sticky-notes/HN-8052
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We wish you a great, happy new year 2025! 🎉🥳
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#2025

29/12/2024

Exclusive performance suggestions by great musicians: The little blue “v” in our Henle Library is the key to a whole treasure chest of musical gems! Learn more about the new feature – and upgrade your digital sheet music experience!
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27/12/2024

The iconic beginning of Brahms' 2nd piano concerto, performed at the Henle Publishing House by pianist Zijian Wei and Yun Zeng, principal horn of Berliner Philharmoniker 🌟🎶💙
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Urtext edition used in this video: https://www.henle.de/en/Piano-Concerto-no.-2-in-B-flat-major-op.-83/HN-1231
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24/12/2024

The Christmas tree is adorned, the goose is stuffed, and the presents are neatly wrapped beneath the tree. Or perhaps your celebrations look quite different? Regardless of how you choose to celebrate Christmas, we wish you a joyful time surrounded by friends and family, filled with delicious food and delightful music. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!
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22/12/2024

Now we are almost there: J.S. Bach's enchanting three gamba sonatas in an arrangement for viola will help us through the last few days until Christmas! They are based on other works by him that were originally intended for different instrumentations. What they all have in common is a strict three-part texture (gamba and two-voice keyboard). Our viola arrangement reflects Bach’s own arranging practice. Only in a few passages does the original gamba part descend below the viola’s tonal range, and these can easily be resolved by moving the melody line to a higher octave. We wish you relaxed final preparations and a wonderful 4th Advent!
https://www.henle.de/en/Three-Gamba-Sonatas-BWV-1027-1029/HN-684
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19/12/2024

About experiments and a pioneering achievement: Gershwin’s Concerto in F, premiered on December 3, 1925, in Carnegie Hall, belongs to a group of self-imposed “experiments” with which the composer sought to make inroads into “serious” music. For this first Urtext edition of the Concerto, we reviewed a multitude of autograph and printed sources in the USA and removed the editing traces of the posthumously published orchestral parts. A true pioneering achievement!
https://www.henle.de/en/Concerto-in-F/HN-859
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Two copies needed for performance. Breitkopf & Härtel offers both the full score and orchestral parts by the same editor. Discover all our piano concerto editions: https://www.henle.de/en/piano-concerto/
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17/12/2024

Popular arrangement: In 1920, Sergei Prokofiev composed five “Songs without Words”, that is, vocalises, for the singer Nina Koshetz, a close friend at the time. While these Five Melodies for Voice and Piano Op. 35, published in 1922, are still very rarely performed today, the situation is quite different with their arrangement for violin and piano!
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Prokofiev undertook this in 1925 at the suggestion of violinists Joseph Szigeti, Cecilia Hansen and, above all, Paul Kochański. Enriched with octave transpositions, double stops, harmonics and pizzicati, the violin part of the five pieces gained an enormous variety of additional expressive possibilities. No wonder the Five Melodies op. 35a today number among the Russian master’s most popular chamber music works! With helpful fingerings by Michael Korstick and Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin). Get the first Urtext edition now, edited on the basis of all available sources: https://www.henle.de/en/Five-Melodies-op.-35a/HN-1539
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Read also our blog article about the accidental rediscovery of a source: https://blog.henle.de/en/2024/08/12/the-rediscovery-of-a-new-prokofiev-source/
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16/12/2024

A remarkable step in the creation of our next facsimile edition of Bach’s Flute Sonata BWV 1030:
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Our Head of Production Gabi Lamprecht and Head of Publishing Norbert Müllemann recently visited the printing house Memminger MedienCentrum AG to ensure every detail of this high-quality edition meets Henle’s standards of excellence. The precision in color matching was exceptional, thanks to the meticulous preparation by the printing team.
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As an added highlight, we enjoyed an insightful tour of the facilities—what an impressive operation! Our heartfelt thanks go to Wolfgang Diesch and Franz Kreil for their exceptional cooperation over so many years, and thank you for making this experience possible!
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This facsimile edition is more than just a beautiful reproduction—it’s a bridge to the past. ✨ In collaboration with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, we’ve created a unique edition that includes not only the autograph score but also the original manuscript copy of the flute part, which is attached to the edition as a separate double leaf—just as in the original manuscript. We can’t wait to share this remarkable edition with the world! Many thanks go to Martina Rebmann and Yo Tomita for the collaboration and the insights they shared in the introduction of our facsimile edition.
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13/12/2024

We reached out to music students, educators, and librarians at conservatories to gather their insights on the Henle Library Campus Edition. A special thank you to flutist Gillian Derer from Canada, Johanna Staemmler from the Armida Quartett and faculty member at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, as well as librarians Ms. Tsukada and Ms. Okamoto from the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo for sharing their valuable perspectives!
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Learn more: https://henle-library.com/en/campus-edition/
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09/12/2024

Beethoven's musical legacy, his nine symphonies, in a practical slipcase under the Christmas tree: Isn't that a wonderful gift for every devotee of the great Viennese master? What made Beethoven's work truly groundbreaking was his ability to transform the symphony into a powerful medium for exploring a wide array of musical concepts. His compositions span the heroic and the sublime, as well as the heartfelt expressions of rural life, ultimately culminating in a moving call for brotherhood in the choral finale of the Ninth Symphony. The nine handy study editions are based on the Beethoven Complete Edition. Order now: https://www.henle.de/en/The-Symphonies-9-Volumes-in-a-Slipcase/HN-9800
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George Gershwin, Concerto in F

About experiments and a pioneering achievement: Gershwin’s Concerto in F, premiered on December 3, 1925, in Carnegie Hall, belongs to a group of self-imposed “experiments” with which the composer sought to make inroads into “serious” music. For this first Urtext edition of the Concerto, we reviewed a multitude of autograph and printed sources in the USA and removed the editing traces of the posthumously published orchestral parts. A true pioneering achievement! https://www.henle.de/en/Concerto-in-F/HN-859 * * * Two copies needed for performance. Breitkopf & Härtel offers both the full score and orchestral parts by the same editor. Discover all our piano concerto editions: https://www.henle.de/en/piano-concerto/ * * * #henleverlag #urtext #sheetmusic #classicalmusic #piano #pianist #pianoconcerto #gershwin #georgegershwin #concertoinf #jazz #jazzconcerto

Hidden gems in the Henle Library app – part 2

The little blue “v” in our Henle Library: the key to a whole treasure chest of musical gems! Learn more about the new feature – and upgrade your digital sheet music experience! https://henle-library.com/en/features/#number_15 * * * #henleverlag #henlelibrary #digitalscore #digitalsheetmusic #newfeature #cadenzas #kadenzen #urtext #classicalmusic

What do the music students, teachers and librarians at conservatories think about the Henle Library Campus Edition?

We reached out to music students, educators, and librarians at conservatories to gather their insights on the Henle Library Campus Edition. A special thank you to flutist Gillian Derer from Canada, Johanna Staemmler from the Armida Quartett and faculty member at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, as well as librarians Ms. Tsukada and Ms. Okamoto from the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo for sharing their valuable perspectives! * * * Learn more: https://henle-library.com/en/campus-edition/ * * * #henleverlag #henlelibrary #digitalscore #digitalsheetmusic #musicschool #conservatory #musicstudent #musicteacher #musiclibrary #urtext

Prokofiev, Toccata op. 11, performed by Yulianna Avdeeva

Prokofiev's "amazing edgy and energetic character" is what Yulianna Avdeeva - pianist already sees developed in the composer's early work, the Toccata op. 11. With this video, you get a brief and impressive demonstration of what this sounds like. The edition itself contains Yulianna's fingerings for this magnificent piece. Give it a try: https://www.henle.de/en/Toccata-op.-11/HN-1581 * * * #henleverlag #urtext #sheetmusic #classicalmusic #piano #pianist #prokofiev #sergeiprokofiev #toccata #yuliannaavdeeva

Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto no. 3, performed by Zijian Wei and the Nanchang Symphony Orchestra (Conductor Yu Ji)

Zijian Wei, 1st Prize Winner and G. Henle Verlag Urtext Prize Winner at this year's Piano Cleveland Competition celebrated a huge success with Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto at the Jiangxi Arts Center in Nanchang in November. His performance certainly based on the Henle Urtext edition of the popular masterpiece: https://www.henle.de/en/Piano-Concerto-no.-3-d-minor-op.-30/HN-1452 *** #henleverlag #urtext #classicalmusic #sheetmusic #rachmaninoff #piano #pianist #pianoconcerto

S. Prokofiev: Visions fugitives. Presented by Boris Giltburg

“Fly-bys” that stay in your memory: the magnificent Visions fugitives by Prokofiev, described by Boris Giltburg as “colorful, quirky, many of them very virtuosic, some lyrical, very atmospheric throughout”. Try them out now: the fingerings provided by Boris Giltburg will help you to tackle even the virtuoso ones! * * * https://www.henle.de/en/Visions-fugitives-op.-22/HN-1158 * * * #henleverlag #urtext #sheetmusic #classicalmusic #piano #pianist #prokofiev #sergeiprokofiev #simonmorrison #borisgiltburg #visionsfugitives

Wataru Hisasue performs Liszt - Années de pèlerinage

During a private concert at the Henle Publishing House in Munich, Wataru Hisasue 久末航 performed excerpts from Liszt's "Années de pèlerinage". What an honour to host the winner of the "G. Henle Verlag Beethoven Prize" of this year's Concours Géza Anda Zürich *** https://www.henle.de/en/Annees-de-pelerinage-Premiere-Annee-Suisse/HN-1490 *** #henleverlag #classicalmusic #liszt #urtext #henlelibrary

A. Schönberg's Transfigured Night op. 4 - Fingerings and bowings by the Armida Quartet

Are you prepared to watch tonight's Super Moon? While waiting for it, check out the new and exclusive experienced fingerings and bowings by the Armida Quartett for Schönberg String Sextet "Transfigured Night" – available in the Henle Library app from today on! Have a look at it and make a try working on this masterpiece with your friends. Not yet registered the app? Download it here: https://henle-library.com/#download *** #henleverlag #henlelibrary #urtext #arnoldschönberg #stringquartet #supermoon #skygazer

R. Schumann: Piano Quintet op. 44

Robert Schumann's piano quintet was praised by his wife Clara as "full of strength and freshness" and "extremely brilliant." Richard Wagner also admired the piece, which became one of Schumann's most successful works and remains a gem in chamber music. TThanks for this brilliant performance excerpt using the #henlelibrary app, dear Mona Asuka, Christel Lee, Kate Norine Maloney - Violinist, Christoph Vandory and Jonathan Roozeman - Cellist *** Get your own score - in a printed edition: https://www.henle.de/en/Piano-Quintet-E-flat-major-op.-44/HN-355 - or digitally: https://henle-library.com/ *** #henleverlag #urtext #classicalmusic #robertschumann #chambermusic