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.
mit Solo. Nach Henle-Gesamtausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 146768
268 Schottische Lieder für George Thomson
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 143538
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 141706
Serie 25/12
for: Orchestra
Book (critical commentary, hardcover)
Item no.: 140708
op. 76, 77, 103
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 137841
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 582842
with parts for clarinet in B flat and C
for: Clarinet, bassoon
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 577001
two copies needed for performance
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 582839
Studien-Edition
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 664640
Studien-Edition
for: Clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617097
Studien-Edition
for: Clarinet (B-flat), bassoon, horn (E-flat), violin, viola, cello, double bass
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486506
op. 31/1
for: Piano
Item no.: 303806
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 464263
"Halle Sonatas"
with two separate Flute/Basso Continuo parts
for: Flute, basso continuo
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 213214
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 602673
op. 105 und 107
for: Klavier und Flöte (Violine)
Item no.: 333279
Studien-Edition
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 167186
"Hoffmeister Quartet and Prussian Quartets "
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 664901
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 636617
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 561239
with marked and unmarked string parts
Fingering and bowing for Violoncello: Reiner Ginzel
for: Cello
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401461
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486510
Original cadenza no. 1 also in a version by Eugène Ysaÿe
with marked and unmarked string part
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 657863
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 609239
Easy Piano Music
Volume II
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition, anthology)
Item no.: 401134
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401122
for: Piano
Item no.: 401103
D 958
for: Piano
Item no.: 180720
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 162032
KV 495
for: Horn, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 342752
op. 30
for: Piano
Item no.: 630405
and other works for choir and orchestra
Urtext of the Beethoven Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 243304
Studien-Edition
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 185263
Second Tost Quartets
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 401183
Complete Edition XIV/5
for: Baryton (viola) [viola da gamba/violin], viola, cello
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 458522
Urtext
for: 2 violins, cello, piano
Single part Cello
Item no.: 401286
Version for Violin and Piano
unmarked part on demand
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 242095
Studien-Edition
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 278604
two copies necessary for performance
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 630399
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, 2 solo parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 630326
Urtext Edition without fingering
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 664048
Fantasia quasi Sonata
for: Piano
Item no.: 561990
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 561581
for Oboe and Piano
Version for Clarinet
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 401423
Klavierauszug
Fingersatz: Hans Kann
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401414
for Piano and Clarinet
Version for Violoncello
with marked and unmarked string parts
Urtext
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401401
for: Piano
Item no.: 630345
Fragments
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 621028