Facsimile editions from Henle publishing house have been a recurring topic on this blog. For today’s post, though, I’d like to focus on a facsimile project I’ve personally been co-supervising: Bach’s Flute Sonata in b minor.
As much as we editors are passionate about producing further Henle-blue Urtext editions (and that, of course, remains our primary focus!), we also enjoy occasionally launching special projects that bring variety to our daily routine. Facsimile editions are just one such special product, since we, together with our production department, get to be creative right from the cover design stage, which is why Bach is suddenly appearing in yellow instead of blue. And the other work involved in such a project also differs significantly from editing Urtext editions. From image processing to determining the book format and print space – all of this is developed and managed by the production department – these are processes and issues that we in the editorial department otherwise rarely encounter. Continue reading
