András Adorján:

Dear G. Henle Publishers, dear friends,

It is a great pleasure to congratulate you on your 75th birthday.

Ever since I was child, Henle Urtext editions have been the “ne plus ultra” for me, and I was very surprised to discover that we are almost the same age. It's incredible to think that this groundbreaking idea of publishing Urtext editions is still so young.

75 years ago you were alone, yet your pioneering work seemed so worthy of imitation that today there are several competing editions, among which the Henle editions continue to stand out - and not only on account of their blue colour.

At an age when people like myself have long since retired, you continue to be unreservedly active. And what’s more, you are also innovative pioneers of digital music reading and provide access to your treasures with appsfor musicians. You do not continue to publish only works by old and established masters, such as those of the three great "B"s, but also increasingly offer insights into the works of composers who are less mainstream. Rumour has it that Henle will soon publish an Urtext edition from the 20th century: the complete oeuvre of another important "B", who has not exactly been overwhelmed with such editions up to now - that of Béla Bartók. It’s not only the Hungarian in me that is happy about this.

Please remain in this "un-retirement" for a long time to come!

Allow me to wish you many happy returns and continued success, patience and good luck,

András Adorján

Munich, 1 February 2023

Andreas Boyde:

To Henle Publishing House:

It is of particular importance for me to congratulate Henle Publishing House on their 75th birthday!
 The Urtext editions from Munich have been trusted companions for me for decades and continue to shape my musical understanding to this day. The scores, which are musically well-thought out and reliable as regards their scholarship, remain unmatched and captivate also due to their clarity and aesthetic beauty.

As a musician who grew up in the GDR, sheet music by G. Henle Publishers DDR was an unttainable dream, which is why being able to access the world’s leading musical publications as a matter of course is all the more valuable to me today.

My heartfelt thanks to all the staff for this gift!

Andreas Boyde

12/12/2022

Peter Damm:

Dear Dr Seiffert,  

Many happy returns on the 75th birthday of G. Henle Publishers and I would like to extend my best wishes to you and the whole team.

An anniversary such as this is a notable event. You can proudly look back on 75 successful years. All over the world musicians are playing works by composers from a wide range of eras using Urtext editions from your publishing house. Everyone is grateful for the top quality of the printed editions, which facilitates the study of these compositions. At the same time, the informative prefaces are also highly valued.

I took great pleasure in our cooperation on the edition of the Horn Concerto opus 11 by Richard Strauss and I am grateful when I think back to the excellent work with Dr Dominik Rahmer.

I wish you and your staff all the very best and success for the future of G. Henle Publishers.

With very best wishes from the Elbe to the Isar,

Yours

Peter Damm

Tobias Glöckler:

Dear Dr. Seiffert,

With the opening bars from the Double Bass Concerto by Dittersdorf, I would like to offer you and all the staff at Henle Publishers a “virtual” serenade on your 75th birthday.

This is combined with my very best wishes for the continued success of Henle Urtext editions!

In addition, I would like to express my twofold thanks: as a musician for the excellent, practical and reliable Urtext editions for the concert podium and conservatoire, and as an editor for the inspiring and always highly competent collaboration.

In this spirit – here’s to the next 75 years!

Yours sincerely,

Tobias Glöckler

Andreas Groethuysen:

Since sheet music is probably the most important implement for all professional musicians alongside their instrument, and since the blue sheet music from Henle Publishers has shaped my musical life more than any other right from the beginning, I have naturally been extremely attached to this house and its staff for decades.

The fact that its editorial principle – Urtext and the particularly legible printing – has had a decisive influence on the musical understanding of several generations is something that I already spoke of on the occasion of its 50^thanniversary.

Hence, I sincerely wish all those involved that this impact and the striking commercial success of the publishing house may continue undiminished over the next 75 years!

Andreas Groethuysen

Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher:

On the 75^th birthday of Henle Publishers

I became acquainted with my first Henle edition early on. It was the dark blue edition of the Inventions and Sinfonias that formed part of the compulsory repertoire of a proper piano student. It was followed by editions of the Mozart Variations and Schubert Impromptus. The editions were recognisable on account of their special and still common dark blue colour. The light blue clothbound editions were given as presents for birthdays or special occasions.

Since particular value was placed on Urtext while studying, Henle editions such as the Well-Tempered Clavier by J. S. Bach, the piano sonatas and variations by Mozart and Haydn were part of every student’s repertoire. The editions of the classical sonatas delight because the articulation and dynamic markings are orientated towards the original text, as well as due to the musicological additions.

It was therefore a real pleasure for me when Dr Seiffert entrusted me with the task of editing a pedagogical edition of twelve composers in the series “At the Piano”.

All the very best on the 75^th birthday of Henle Publishers!

Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher

Kronberg Academy:

G. Henle Publishers is 75 years old

Henle Publishers is both a guard rail and a beacon: it translates the ideas of composers and brings us all closer to the “musical truth”.

It builds important bridges and combines musical interpretation and scholarship in the most beautiful manner and at the highest level.

For all those who would like to learn from and about music, but also for those who just want to enjoy music, Henle’s editions are nothing less than a gift.

The Kronberg Academy is delighted to have a special relationship with G. Henle Publishers.

All the very best on your anniversary!

Raimund Trenkler, Founder and Director       Friedemann Eichhorn, Artistic Director

Jacob Leuschner:

To G. Henle Publishers on their 75-year anniversary

Why Urtext? Because – as the unadulterated, unfiltered will of the composer – it offers performers the greatest possible freedom. It permits the most direct contact with the work and allows the greatest room for inspiration and creativity. 

The name Henle has embodied Urtext for 75 years. May it remain so for a long time to come!

January 2023

Jacob Leuschner

András Adorján:

Dear G. Henle Publishers, dear friends,

It is a great pleasure to congratulate you on your 75th birthday.

Ever since I was child, Henle Urtext editions have been the “ne plus ultra” for me, and I was very surprised to discover that we are almost the same age. It's incredible to think that this groundbreaking idea of publishing Urtext editions is still so young.

75 years ago you were alone, yet your pioneering work seemed so worthy of imitation that today there are several competing editions, among which the Henle editions continue to stand out - and not only on account of their blue colour.

At an age when people like myself have long since retired, you continue to be unreservedly active. And what’s more, you are also innovative pioneers of digital music reading and provide access to your treasures with appsfor musicians. You do not continue to publish only works by old and established masters, such as those of the three great "B"s, but also increasingly offer insights into the works of composers who are less mainstream. Rumour has it that Henle will soon publish an Urtext edition from the 20th century: the complete oeuvre of another important "B", who has not exactly been overwhelmed with such editions up to now - that of Béla Bartók. It’s not only the Hungarian in me that is happy about this.

Please remain in this "un-retirement" for a long time to come!

Allow me to wish you many happy returns and continued success, patience and good luck,

András Adorján

Munich, 1 February 2023

Heime Müller:

Henle Publishers has done it!

Whenever I see “Henle blue” lying around, my eyes light up: oh, how wonderful – high-quality, trustworthy sheet music, I’ll have a look inside right away!

Many happy returns on your 75^th birthday! 

Heime Müller

Nicolai Pfeffer:

For me, Henle Publishers is much more than a mere music publisher: here, people discuss, philosophise and make music. Excellent musicology is just as much a matter of course for this thoroughly unique publishing house as a well-founded, practice-oriented understanding of music, the desire to perform, as well as the passionate devotion to creating an aesthetic musical text beyond all measure, lending expression and form to the great musical masterpieces.

I am very honoured to be able to contribute to Henle’s publishing programme in the field of clarinet literature.

Nicolai Pfeffer

Cuarteto Quiroga:

Dear friends,

We are very happy and honoured to be able to congratulate you on this wonderful 75^th anniversary in 2023. For us, Henle Publishers’ carefully produced editions of string quartets by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms or Bartók and many others, are a fundamental part of our life as string quartet players and committed teachers. They accompany us in our daily work, when we rehearse, teach, give concerts and do recordings, and we rely on them as an indispensable source to support our interpretations and musical decisions.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on 75 years of long and fruitful life and wish you at least another 75 musically productive years.

With admiration and true gratitude,

Helena Poggio Lagares, Aitor Hevia Sesma, Cibrán Sierra Vázquez

and Josep Puchades Escrivá

Hansjörg Schellenberger:

Henle Publishers’ sheet music has accompanied me ever since the beginning of my musical career. These editions were and are simply the ones with the most accurate printed reproduction of the works in the musical world that are the most important for me as an oboist and conductor. If you attach importance to being absolutely sure of getting what the great composer intended in each case, then the reference edition is ALWAYS the one published by HENLE!!!

And this makes me all the more proud to have been the editor of a new, perfectly revised edition of a very important work in the oboe repertoire – the Concerto for Oboe by Richard Strauss – for HENLE publishers.

On its 75^th anniversary, I wish the publishing house and all of us musicians that it continues to flourish, grow and enable new insights and experiences in the service of the creation of music. Without HENLE the musical landscape would be much bleaker.

Hansjörg Schellenberger

Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy:

To the next 75 years!

A big thank you for your great work and the friendly contact. It is a privilege.

Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy

Christine Schornsheim:

Dear Dr. Seiffert and dear Henle team,

From the bottom of my heart and with deep gratitude, I congratulate you and your staff on the 75th anniversary of G. Henle Publishers! Your editions are on music stands around the world, are always backed by excellent musicology and support professional musicians and amateurs alike in the best possible manner.

To paraphrase Loriot:

"A (musician’s) life without Henle is possible, but pointless!”  

In anticipation of more wonderful editions,

Yours sincerely, 

Christine Schornsheim

Yaara Tal:

For around 50 years the “blue sheet music” has been part of my artistic life. It is hard to imagine working with music without these scores from Henle Publishers.

Over the years, this “Henle blue” has taken on an almost mythical dimension for me: On the one hand, it draws clear water from deep sources and on the other, it reflects heavenly eternal blue.

I wish G. Henle Publishers all the best and many years full of creativity and inspiration to come!

Ingolf Turban:

75 Jahre G. Henle Publishers

Himmel der Noten: [Heaven of sheet music]

Erlaubt? Verboten? [Permitted? Forbidden?]

Nur für Exoten? [Just for exotic species?]

Lasst alle Pfoten  [Let all paws]

Erklingen als Boten! [Sound as messengers!]

Heartfelt congratulations!

Seriously happy,
I. Turban

Johannes Umbreit:

A musician’s life without Henle sheet music is possible, but pointless. Loriot might have put it this way, had he been a practicing musician.

The blue (grey) volumes are a must and on this account congratulations to the publishing house, together with thanks that Günter Henle dared to undertake this 75 years ago. 

Looking forward to the next 75 productive years!

Johannes Umbreit

Severin von Eckardstein

Dear Dr. Seiffert,

The chic, unpretentious blue editions of sheet music have always been synonymous for me with steadfastness, honesty and the most generous legacy of classical piano literature.

This will also certainly not change. In this spirit, I wish Henle Publishers several more three-quarters of a century of quiet sovereignty over the treasures of our occidental and progressive musical culture.

With best wishes,  

Severin von Eckardstein

Thomas Zehetmair:

Since the 1970s I have been using Henle Urtext editions, in the beginning sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven, and later works for violin, chamber music and orchestra by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Franck. Informative prefaces and critical reports complemented my own research in an ideal manner.

The printed image has always appealed to me.

My very best wishes on your anniversary!

I look forward to continuing to work with Henle scores and hope that many generations of musicians will be able to benefit from the publishing house’s valuable information. Even if outward appearances are seen to be increasingly important when marketing the music, it is all the more essential to support the possibilities for a truly deep engagement with the masterpieces.

With thanks and best wishes,

Thomas Zehetmair