A Bärenreiter Chronicle

1923-4 Karl Vötterle founds Bärenreiter-Verlag in Augsburg; its first publications are the Finkensteiner Blätter, edited by Walther Hensel
1927 Bärenreiter relocates to Kassel
1928 First editions of music by Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach (Orgelbüchlein)
1929
  • Foundation of New Schütz Society (now the International Heinrich Schütz Society)
  • Foundation of church-music periodical Musik und Kirche
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    1930 First volume in the Quempas series, which reached a total run of over 3 million copies
    1932 Beginning of association with Hugo Distler
    1933 Foundation of Arbeitskreis für Hausmusik (later Internationaler Arbeitskreis für Musik) which mounts First Kassel Music Festival that autumn
    1936 Beginning of Das Erbe deutscher Musik series
    1944 Bärenreiter-Verlag in Basel is founded due to threat of closure in Kassel
    1945 Publishers' premises in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe destroyed in air raid
    1947
  • Foundation of periodical Musica
  • Foundation of the German Musicological Research Society, Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
    • 1948 Foundation of periodical Die Musikforschung
    1949 First fascicle of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG)
    1950 Bärenreiter assumes control of Hinnenthal-Verlag; beginning of Hortus Musicus series with renaissance and baroque music
    1951
  • Work begins on the New Bach Edition
  • Work begins on the complete Gluck edition
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    1952 Bärenreiter takes over Nagels-Verlag
    1954
  • First two volumes of New Bach Edition appear
  • Work begins on the New Mozart Edition
  • Bärenreiter assumes control of Acta Musicologica, the journal of the International Musicological Society
    • 1955
  • Work begins on the Halle Handel Edition
  • First volume of New Mozart Edition
  • First Volume of the New Edition of the Complete Works of Heinrich Schütz
    • 1956
  • Beginning of association with Ernst Krenek
  • First volume of the New Series of the Works of Orlando di Lasso
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    1957
  • Work begins on Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) in cooperation with G. Henle Verlag
  • Bärenreiter takes over Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg (founded in 1912)
    • 1958 Foundation of Bärenreiter New York
    1960 Foundation of Bärenreiter-Musicaphon record company
    1962 Foundation of Editions Bärenreiter S.A.R.L in Paris (1971-80 in Tours)
    (1962) Beginning of edition of Mozart's letters and writings (7 volumes by 1975)
    1963 Foundation of Bärenreiter Ltd, London (today in Harlow, Essex)
    1964
  • The New Schubert Edition begins
  • First performance of Bizet's Carmen (Mannheim Nationaltheater) using new critical edition prepared by Fritz Oeser for Alkor
    • 1965 Foundation of Disco Center for the Bärenreiter labels Cantate and Musicaphon and more than thirty other recording companies
    1966 First volume of Complete Works of Franz Berwald
    1967 The New Berlioz Edition begins
    1971
  • Beginning of association with the Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv)
  • First volume of RISM appears
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    1975 Karl Vötterle dies
    Managing Director: Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle
    1976
  • Entrance of Leonhard Scheuch in the management
  • First performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann at Vienna Volksoper using new edition prepared by Fritz Oeser for Alkor
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    1977 Beginning of joint publication of Schubert's lieder with G. Henle Verlag
    1979 First volumes of complete edition of the works of Leoš Janácek (coproduction with Editio Supraphon, Prague)
    1980 Editions Bärenreiter Tours is disbanded
    1986 MGG comes to a close with volume 17
    1987 Foundation of KGA (Kasseler Grossauslieferung), distribution center
    1988 Bärenreiter assumes control of Süddeutscher Musikverlag, Heidelberg
    1989 MGG appears in paperback
    1991
  • Main series (music volumes) of the New Mozart Edition comes to a close and is re-issued in paperback in 20 volumes
  • Bärenreiter takes over Henschel Musik, a theater agency in Berlin
  • Foundation of Nakladatelstvi Bärenreiter, Prague, and beginning of the privatization of Editio Supraphon, Prague
  • The New Bach Edition and Halle Handel Edition, previously issued jointly with Deutscher Verlag für Musik (DVfM), are continued by Bärenreiter alone following German reunification
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    1992 Rediscovery of Hector Berlioz's Messe solennelle
    1993 Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg, relocates to Kassel
    1994 First volume of the second edition of the MGG appears
    1995 First volume of the Complete Works of Niels Wilhelm Gade (coproduction with Engstrøm & Sødring, Copenhagen)
    1996 The edition of the complete works of Orlando di Lasso comes to a close
    1997 Beginning of Jonathan Del Mar's new edition of Beethoven's Symphonies
    1998
  • Bärenreiter becomes a shareholder of Editio Supraphon Praha, since 1999 Editio Bärenreiter Praha
  • The Subject Encyclopedia of the second edition of the MGG is completed with volume 9, the index volume is published in 1999
  • The Critical Edition of the works of Leonhard Lechner is completed
    • 1999
  • First volume of the Biographical Encyclopedia of the second edition of MGG is published
  • Neuwerk Buch & Musik moves from the Heinrich-Schütz-Allee to the inner city of Kassel into new premises at the Karlsplatz
  • Rediscovery of Hugo Distler's stage music to the play "Ritter Blaubart" by Ludwig Tieck
    • 2000
  • Richard Baum, companion to Karl Vötterle and chief editor of the publishing house for many years, dies at the age of 98
  • Main body of the New Bach Edition is completed
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    2001 The childrens songbook "Der Liederbär" is highly successful
    2002 Start of the successful series "Mein Instrument"
    2004 Following a cooperation between the Société Jean-Philippe Rameau (Paris) and the Bärenreiter-Verlag, the first volume of the Rameau Complete Edition (Opera Omnia), „Anacréon“, is published.
    2005
  • Rediscovery of the J.S. Bach aria „Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn’ ihn“ . Publication of the performing edition as well as a facsimile edition
  • The Halle Handel Edition celebrates its 50th anniversary. 64 music volumes and 5 supplement volumes have been published since this Complete Critical Edition began.
  • Bärenreiter takes over the exclusive worldwide distribution of the new „Critical Edition of the Complete Works” of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
    • 2006
  • During the Mozart year 2006 the New Mozart Edition volumes will be completed and available in their entirety. „Mozart. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen“ (the complete Mozart letters) are published in a paperback edition comprising eight volumes. These publications along with innumerable new sheet music and book publications confirm Bärenreiter's reputation as the 'Mozart publisher'.
  • The completion of the New Berlioz Edition with a ceremony in London
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    2007
  • Bärenreiter-Verlag has been awarded the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize by the regional capital city of Magdeburg
  • The completion of the New Bach Edition will be marked at a ceremony in June in Leipzig
  • The New Mozart Edition is complete. The conclusion of the Complete Edition will be marked at a celebration in June in Salzburg
  • The Hesse Regional Government has granted the publisher Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle, Bärenreiter-Verlag the title of Honerary Professor
  • First volume of the new edition »Works of Gioachino Rossini«, Chamber Music without Piano, is published

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