Bärenreiter.
Founded 1923 in Augsburg by Karl Vötterle. Now seated in Kassel. The German urtext house whose New Bach Edition, New Mozart Edition, and Hänssler Bach catalogues are the global scholarly standard. The yellow-cream Bärenreiter cover is musicology in print.
The New Bach
Edition.
Karl Vötterle founded Bärenreiter to publish the Lutheran chorale repertoire. The press grew through the war years and after 1945 became the editorial home of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe — the complete-works edition that supplanted the 19th-century Bach Gesellschaft as the scholarly reference.
The Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, the new Schubert edition, the new Schumann edition — Bärenreiter publishes the German musicological canon. The yellow-cream cover with the Bärenreiter bear is the visual signature of urtext scholarship.
The Neue Bach-Ausgabe.Bärenreiter · since 1923
Urtext, complete,
parts, study.
Complete-works critical editions (Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Haydn); urtext performance editions in the practical performing series; orchestral parts; choral materials; study scores.
US distribution through Hal Leonard.
