Henle Publications in Munich is one of the largest traditional German publishers that specialise in classical music. Since it was founded in 1948, Henle has published almost exclusively Urtexts, original editions, by composers from all eras, especially Baroque to Classical Modern.
Günter Henle, an enthusiastic amateur pianist, founded Henle Publications on October 20th 1948 in Munich, where the company’s headquarters are still situated to this day. Henle found, when he sat at the piano, he was often frustrated by changes and corrections made to the original scores by editors and publishers. In his opinion, these new editions ignored the true intensions of the composers, so he decided to produce new editions based on original scores, and to make them accessible to everyone. He decided to use the term ’Urtext’, which he had read in a few critical editions, and it is this term which has now become so famous.
Today the Henle catalogue includes more than 1250 Urtext scores, mainly for solo instruments and chamber music ensembles, as well as several hundred music theory books. This also includes the complete works of many important composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Joseph Haydn, and many anthologies, including the series The Legacy of German Music.
Henle’s scores are prepared by a team of around 30 people, and are printed and bound in Germany. Since 1995, in addition to the famous blue Urtext editions, Henle Publications also offers study scores of selected works, and in 2016 they launched their digital sheet music collections, downloadable via their App.
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 471359
op. 126
for: Piano
Item no.: 555129
Trost-Quartetteop. 54 & 55
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 493041
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401121
for: Piano
Study score
Item no.: 431980
Urtext Edition
clothbound
Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401294
Hob. XXIIIc:4a-d
for: Choir, orchestra
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 401279
Hob. XXIIIc:4a-d
for: Choir, orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 401277
(Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401214
for: Piano
Item no.: 401206
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401115
vom Komponisten erleichterte Fassung
Fingersatz von Rolf Koenen
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 647782
for: Piano
Item no.: 630407
(Pastoral-Symphonie)op. 68
for: Orchestra
Studienpartitur
Item no.: 630340
Studien-Edition
for: Cello
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 621042
op. 100, D 929
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 621040
Edition Urtext
Paperbound
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 609744
WoO 6
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 608741
Ausgabe für Gambe (Viola)
for: Gamba (Viola)
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 602679
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 602383
Studien-Edition
for: 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons (sextet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 582849
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 582834
Sinfonien 1787-1789
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 577061
Die Schöpfung (3. Teilband: Skizzen)
Item no.: 577060
Teil 1: Faksimile des Autographs, Teil 2: Faksimile der Erstausgabe mit autographer Widmung des Komponistenop. 120
for: Piano
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 577015
"A Little Night Music"
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Single part Viola
Item no.: 561251
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 493989
4 Volumes in a Slipcase
Studien-Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
4 Study scores (hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 493088
mit kritischem Bericht
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 488937
for: Orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 487625
op. 59, 74, 95
Complete Edition, Abteilung VI, Band 4
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486867
Hob. XXI:2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 486547
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486508
op. 85
Dirigierpartitur
Item no.: 482925
for: Piano
Item no.: 477730
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 555132
op. 65
for: Trompete, Streichquartett und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 636525
WoO 70, 64, 77
for: Piano
Item no.: 401097
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401091
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 362582
for: String orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 342567
op. 102
for: Violin, cello, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 335290
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Violin, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 330296
op. 77
for: Violin, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 281173
for: Orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 276118
Dramma giocoso
Die Oper 5 – Denkmalausgaben
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 275355
Gesamtausgabe Reihe I Bd. 1 (Complete edition)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 241818
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215723