Keeping quality high
As every year, the Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband e. V. (DMV) awarded the "Best Edition" music edition prize at the Frankfurt Music Fair. Eight publications were honored.
More than 300,000 editions of sheet music from German publishers are available in German music shops, with around 7,000 new publications being added every year. At a time when professional musicians, teachers and the large number of amateur musicians, mainly children and young people, often have to make do with makeshift solutions due to economic constraints, it seems appropriate to award a special prize to sheet music, music books and digital editions of outstanding quality.
The aim is to highlight the achievements of those involved in production, but above all to raise the public's awareness of quality. Winfried Jacobs, Vice President of the DMV, affirms: "The association and its approximately 400 member publishers are thus recognizing special editorial achievements in times of the levelling of cultural achievements and the proliferation of cheap reproductions."
In the 26th year of the renowned competition, 17 publishers took part and submitted their best publications. The winners were
Francois Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Premier livre, edited by Denis Herlin
Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel
Choir book for the Protestant hymnal. With movements for 63 hymns from the Protestant Hymnal, (choirmaster package, performance material) edited by Kay Johannsen and Richard Mailänder
Carus-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Love songs with pictures by Gustav Klimt, (piano book, choir book, CD recordings), edited by Mirjam James
Carus-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdinge
Purely women's business. 60 highlights for women's choir from the 16th century to the present day, edited by Jürgen Faßbender, Uwe Henkhaus, Ernie Rhein, Jochen Stankewitz
Edition Peters Group, Leipzig
