The ''Händel-Jahrbuch'' (HJb) is a music scientific journal dedicated to the composer

George Frideric Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, ...

. It is published annually by the international Handel-Gesellschaft in conjunction with the foundation

Handel House Handel House (German: ''Händel-Haus'') is a cultural site in Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The composer George Frideric Handel was born here in 1685; it is now a museum, and houses a collection relating to the composer and to the musical hi ...

in Halle. The "scientific secretary" of the Handel Society is also

chief editor An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

of the Jahrbuch, and since 2011 the musicologist Annette Landgraf.

Publisher

The Jahrbuch was first published by the musicologist

Rudolf Steglich Rudolf Steglich (18 February 18868 July 1976) was a German musicologist, music editor and academic teacher, who was professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, University of Erlangen from 1930 to 1956. His focus was life and music of Georg ...

from

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...

for the new Handel-Gesellschaft in

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, founded in 1925 by

Hermann Abert Hermann Abert (; 25 March 1871 – 13 August 1927) was a German historian of music. Life Abert was born in Stuttgart, the son of Johann Josef Abert (1832–1915), the ''Hofkapellmeister'' of that city. From 1890 to 1896 he studied classical ...

. From 1928 to 1933, it was published in six volumes by

Breitkopf & Härtel Breitkopf & Härtel is the world's oldest music publishing house. The firm was founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf. The catalogue currently contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on ...

in Leipzig. From 1955, the Handel-Gesellschaft published it as a new series at the ''Deutscher Verlag für Musik'' in Leipzig. The first four volumes can be counted twice as a continuation of the old series. Between 1992 and 1995, Studio-Verlag in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

managed the publication. Since then, the Jahrbuch has been published by Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel. In 2008, the

Foundation in Halle became a partner.

Content

Contributions to the Händel-Jahrbuch are published mainly in German, with some contributions in English. Although between 1967 and 1976 the Jahrbuch sporadically described international academic conferences held at the Handel Festival in Halle, since 1989 have been regularly published. In addition, public lectures for the Festival are printed along with free research contributions. The economist Manfred Rätzer continues to provide statistical records of the current performances of Handel's operas and oratorios in the yearbook. The volumes also include the business accounts of the president of the association. Various forthcoming publications on Handel are advertised, including new volumes of the ''

Hallische Händel-Ausgabe The ''Hallische Händel-Ausgabe'' ("Halle Handel Edition") is a multi-volume collection of the works of George Frideric Handel. It was first published in the 1950s: initially as an adjunct to the HG edition, but by 1958 as a collected edition i ...

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Access

The contributions to the Handel Yearbook are listed in the online catalogue (

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) of the Library of the

Foundation in Halle. The Jahrbuch is available for purchase in bookshops, free to members of the association.

Editorial office

For more than three decades (1955 to 1988) the Handel researcher

Walther Siegmund-Schultze Walther Siegmund-Schultze (6 July 1916 – 6 March 1993) was a German musicologist. He was the elder brother of musicologist Hella Brock. Biography Siegmund-Schultze was born in Schweinitz (Elster). In July 1940 he was promoted to Dr. ph ...

held the position of Scientific Secretary of the Society.

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