G. Henle Verlag
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| Founded | 20 October 1948 |
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| Founder | Günter Henle |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Headquarters location | Munich |
| Key people | Wolf-Dieter Seiffert |
| Publication types | sheet music |
| Official website | www |
G. Henle Publishers is a German publishing house that specializes in urtext editions of sheet music. The programme includes works by composers from all different periods, in particular composers from the baroque to the early twentieth century whose works are no longer under copyright. In addition to its sheet music, G. Henle Publishers also produces scholarly complete editions, books, reference works and periodicals.The publishing house also offers its Urtext editions in digital form, available in an app for tablets.
The publishing house was founded on 20 October 1948 by Günter Henle with the permission of the US military government. It had offices in Duisburg and Munich. Under the founder’s direction, from the very beginning an integral part of the business was to “ensure the publication of Urtext editions of music on a scholarly basis, in particular from the 18th and 19th centuries”. It was at this time that Joseph Lehnacker (1895–1965) came up with the “Henle blue” for the cover (the same colour that is used today) as well as the design of the title font.
For several decades, the engraving was done by the Universitätsdruckerei H. Stürtz (Würzburg). Later they were joined by engravers in Leipzig and Darmstadt. The first works to be published were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Sonatas in two volumes, edited by Walther Lampe, and Franz Schubert’s Impromptus and Moments Musicaux, edited by Walter Gieseking. Towards the end of the 1990s, hand engraving of the musical texts was replaced by computers.
1949 saw the publishing house’s participation in the first post-war music fair in Detmold. In 1953 the editorial department was established at the Duisburg offices with Ewald Zimmermann (1910–1998) at its head.
Due to Günter Henle’s work in industry, the publishing house was initially dubbed the "Klöckner music factory", yet it slowly became one of the major players in the German music publishing business. In 1955 the employees in Munich moved to the newly acquired publishing house in Schongauerstraße 24.
Günter Henle was much involved in founding the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne in 1955. Following this, the first scholarly works in the Haydn Complete Edition were published, whose volumes have since been issued by G. Henle Publishers. In 1969 Martin Bente (*1936) took over from Friedrich Joseph Schaefer (1907–1981) as chief financial officer in Munich. Three years later, in 1972, Günter Henle established the Günter Henle Foundation in Munich, which later assumed ownership of the publishing house. The foundation was initially chaired by Günter Henle, and following his death by Walter Keim from 1979 to 1981 and then by Anne Liese Henle, Günter Henle’s wife, between 1981 and 1994, and C. Peter Henle, son of Günter and Anne Liese Henle (1994–2016). Felix Henle, son of C. Peter Henle, took over the chair in 2016.
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