Breitkopf & Härtel.
The world's oldest continuously-operating music publisher. Founded in 1719 in Leipzig — older than the founding of the United States — Breitkopf is the editorial home of Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Wagner and the Western classical canon.
Breitkopf & Härtel printed Beethoven's symphonies in his lifetime, was the first publisher of Brahms, the publisher of Wagner, and the editorial home of three centuries of the German tradition. The current catalogue spans the Beethoven 2027 urtext edition, the Mahler symphonies, the Strauss operas, the Bach orgelmusik tradition, and the contemporary German classical canon.
Below: the full Breitkopf departmental catalogue. Fifteen editorial departments — from Beethoven 2027 through Zeitgenössische Musik — used by orchestras, conservatories, choirs and church music programmes worldwide.
The Breitkopf shelf.
Ordered as Breitkopf themselves order their catalogue — composers first (Beethoven 2027, Mahler, Strauss), then format and discipline (Orchester, Kammermusik, Chormusik, Orgelmusik), then specialty editions (Urtext, Studienpartituren, Wiederentdeckungen, Zeitgenössische).