Bärenreiter...
the Creation of Excellence
| Bärenreiter was founded by Karl Vötterle in 1923 and today is under the leadership of his descendents Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle and Leonhard Scheuch. Its headquarters are situated in Kassel in the centre of Germany. The Bärenreiter Group, with a workforce of 140 people and subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, the United States of America as well as Czech Republic, is committed to the publication and distribution of classical music of the highest standard. | Bärenreiter is one of the largest publishers of classical music worldwide.
Its extensive publication programme encompasses not only standard concert repertoire, but also educational music, contemporary music as well as music books. From the beginning Bärenreiter has been working towards clear goals: to make a significant contribution to musical culture and to preserve the heritage of European music. So how did Bärenreiter set about to achieve these goals? It was Karl Vötterle's ingenious idea to create the concept of the New Complete Editions. He embarked upon an ambitious project to collect and publish the entire output of numerous composers, keeping to their original intentions. Bärenreiter has been a pioneer in the publication of new scholarly Editions. Through the New Complete Editions Bärenreiter sets the musical standards for others to follow. In order to make these standards accessible to all practising musicians, without compromising the high quality musicological content, Bärenreiter publishes a comprehensive range of Practical Urtext Editions. |
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