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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)

26/12/2025

If you want to play this truly festive music during the holidays, you will need a large hall: Mozart's three three-movement works, K. 136–138, which he designated “Divertimento”, are still perennial evergreens for small string orchestras today. These so-called ‘Salzburg’ divertimenti from 1772, which probably originated on a concert tour under the Italian sun, strike a cheerful, playful serenade tone with mostly song-like upper voice and accompanying lower voices.
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Besides an edition for string quartet, Henle supplies performance material for chamber orchestra: a clearly laid out conducting score in larger format, performance-ready parts, available individually or as a set. The parts all have a hard cover, an enlarged type area and enlarged engraving with excellent page turns! Explore our new series, works for chamber orchestra, which we are now gradually building up! https://www.henle.de/en/Divertimenti-K.-136-138-Salzburg-Divertimenti/HN-3420
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24/12/2025

What we wish you with all our hearts: joy and a peaceful festive season with your loved ones, magical sparkling moments and time to make music together, and perhaps one or two Henle editions under the tree ... Merry Christmas to you all!
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22/12/2025

We are thrilled about our ongoing collaboration with the amazing Timothy Ridout - Violist who contributes his fi*****ngs and bowings to the Henle Library app! Stay tuned for more information about the pieces with his markings, coming soon – in the meantime, feel free to explore them now!
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And here’s more good news: if you feel like making music for yourself or with friends during the upcoming holidays, the digital sheet music in our app is available anytime! Download the app now: https://henle-library.com/
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21/12/2025

For my love! A handwritten musical “Notebook”, lavishly laid out in broadside format, with gilt-edged vellum-covered binding, bearing the initials A. M. B. 1725: this was Johann Sebastian’s personal gift to his second wife, the young Anna Magdalena, an educated singer. In this book he noted down numerous piano works in the most different styles – both his own and by other composers. Many of these compositions were doubtlessly intended to serve the private musical needs of Anna Magdalena as a vocalist, whereas other works may be seen in connection with the musical education of the children.
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Our Urtext edition faithfully reproduces the complete contents of this manuscript, aside from the movements from the “French Suites” and “Partitas” in the notebook (which can be found elsewhere in the Henle catalogue). And have you written or handcrafted something for your loved ones for Christmas? Let us celebrate a splendid fourth Advent with this heavenly music from Bach's time! https://www.henle.de/en/Notebook-for-Anna-Magdalena-Bach/HN-349
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19/12/2025

Meet clarinetist Hongyi Jiang, winner of second prize at this year's Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD in the clarinet category! We already had the pleasure of making the young artist's acquaintance when he was awarded the Henle Urtext Prize at the same event, but we are now delighted to have discovered that he has a deeper connection with Henle Urtext! Learn more in our Q&A with Hongyi Jiang!
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15/12/2025

Exemplary composition: Did you know that the earliest of his three piano sonatas in a minor (D 537), composed in March 1817, is Schubert's first completed piano sonata ever? It seems that the young composer initially had to feel his way around this form, for in the preceding years he had only produced incomplete works in this genre: two three-movement sonatas ended with a menuet in a different key from the opening movement, two other sonatas comprised just two movements … And even after the composition of the Sonata in a minor, this genre remained an experimental one for Schubert.
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What you may discover here is a sonata characterised by concise brevity – the three-movement form dispenses with the usual scherzo. It is far removed from the drama of its a-minor sibling works; meandering modulations often lead to distant harmonic regions and lighten the mood to major – significantly, the sonata also ends in A major. Even though it was composed in spring, doesn't it sound like the ideal winter music? With fi*****ngs by renowned Schubert interpreter Martin Helmchen Give it a try: https://www.henle.de/en/Piano-Sonata-a-minor-op.-post.-164-D-537/HN-1556* * *

14/12/2025

For my best friend: In late October 1853, Robert Schumann, Albert Dietrich and Johannes Brahms presented so-called F. A. E. Sonata, an extraordinary collective work, as a surprise to their friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim, who had come to Düsseldorf to give some concerts.
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The three letters of its title refer to Joachim’s life motto “Frei, aber einsam”; “free, but lonely”, and the sequence of notes derived from it – f-a-e – infuses the whole sonata, more or less hidden from view. Dietrich composed the first movement, and the 20-year-old Brahms the fiery Scherzo (WoO 2), while the romantic, opulent movements nos. 2 and 4 are unmistakably by Schumann (who later took them into his own 3rd Violin Sonata in a minor).
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Have you ever collaborated with friends to a creative endeavour? We wish you a joyful third Advent with this delightful joint effort for violin and piano – with piano fi*****ng by Shai Wosner:
https://www.henle.de/en/Violin-Sonata-a-minor-F.-A.-E.-Sonata/HN-1572
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12/12/2025

"Celebrate the New Year with sforzato!" This unique greeting adds a special touch to your well-wishes. You can also wish your loved ones a peaceful ‘tranquillo’ time or share what you particularly admire about them—perhaps their playful ‘scherzando’ spirit?
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Send musical ‘Seasons Greetings’ that are a little out of the ordinary, and choose one of our attractive, high-quality greeting cards made of blue Henle paper, with elegant cream-white paper insert for writing on. https://www.henle.de/en/onsearch?search=folded+card
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10/12/2025

“Difficult like hell...” is what Dante himself would probably have thought after leafing through Liszt’s virtuoso piece “Après une lecture du Dante”. Inspired by Dante’s “Divina Commedia”, this piece is not only the longest, but also the most demanding in terms of composition and technique in the “Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième Année – Italie”. At the same time, it is also one of the most popular of the “Année” volumes.
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In the subsidiary title “Fantasia quasi Sonata”, Liszt alludes to Beethoven’s famous “Sonata quasi une Fantasia”, reversing Beethoven's emphasis and illustrating the work’s revolutionary basic concept: of a multi-movement work within a single movement. What does that mean? The four formal sections can be understood both as a sonata-form movement and as a four-part sonata – find out more about this in our foreword of our revised single edition! With fi*****ngs by Francesco Piemontesi: https://www.henle.de/en/Apres-une-Lecture-du-Dante-Fantasia-quasi-Sonata/HN-1660
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08/12/2025

Parisian inspiration: After going into exile due to political upheaval in Russia, Alexander Glazunov settled in Paris in 1929. New artistic contacts brought him, who had not composed anything noteworthy for some time, fresh ideas and commissions: the Saxophone Quartet in B flat major, Op. 109, composed in 1932, was inspired by the French saxophonist Marcel Mule and the Quatuor de Saxophones de la Garde Républicaine. With this work, Alexander Glazunov established a new genre virtually out of nowhere and helped the then unusual chamber music setting with four saxophones in different registers to achieve a breakthrough!
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The first edition, however, only appeared over twenty years after Glazunov's death and exhibits numerous typographical errors and inaccuracies. Fortunately, one of the outstanding young saxophone ensembles of our time, the Arcis Saxophon Quartett, has taken up the work and made extraordinary source discoveries in the process! True detective work: learn more about it in the foreword and in our new blog article! Thus, this key work of classical saxophone literature can finally and for the first time be presented in Urtext quality. Get it now: https://www.henle.de/en/Saxophone-Quartet-B-flat-major-op.-109/HN-1046
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Link to our new blog article: https://blog.henle.de/en/2025/11/10/arcis-meets-alexander-glazunovs-saxophone-quartet-finally-in-a-reliable-urtext-edition/
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07/12/2025

For the kids: Gabriel Fauré dedicated his little suite “Dolly” to Hélène Bardac, the daughter of a singer with whom he was friends. The girl, born in 1892, was affectionately nicknamed “Dolly” because she was so tiny. The six pieces, composed mainly for Dolly’s birthday or the New Year, reflect the world as experienced by the growing child, from a lullaby to a temperamental dance. But have you also discovered the subtle allusions to Fauré's own music and that of others: no. 2 quotes the popular lullaby "Do, do, l’enfant do" (Sleep, child, sleep), no. 3 contains a quotation from Fauré’s own Violin Sonata in A major op. 13, and no. 6 clearly refers to Emmanuel Chabrier’s España!
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Music for children and adults alike: these pieces feature numerous harmonic and rhythmic subtleties that are typical of the French composer – and Fauré very much liked to play the work himself, especially with children. On such occasions he took the more difficult secondo part, as emerges from an extant photo of such a performance. And what kind of music do you like to play together with children? We wish you a musical second Advent with these charming pieces for piano four hands by Gabriel Fauré!
https://www.henle.de/en/Dolly-op.-56-for-Piano-Four-hands/HN-1278
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