New management at G.-Henle-Verlag

On January 1, 2024, the management of G.-Henle-Verlag changed: Wolf-Dieter Seiffert retired after more than thirty years with the publishing house, initially as an editor and since 2000 as managing director of the publishing house. The board of the Günter Henle Foundation appointed Norbert Gertsch, the previous deputy publishing director, as his successor.

Norbert Gertsch, born in 1967, studied concert piano at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and, as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, musicology and philosophy at the universities of Salzburg and Heidelberg. In 1996, he was awarded a doctorate in Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa solemnis doctorate.

The following year, Gertsch joined the G. Henle publishing house, becoming chief editor in 2003 and deputy publishing director and program director in 2009. Gertsch has published numerous Urtext editions, including a new edition of Beethoven's piano sonatas with Murray Perahia. He is also co-editor of the Beethoven catalog of works published in 2014 and is primarily responsible for the development of the Henle Library app.

The G. Henle publishing house, founded in 1948, is the global market leader for Urtext sheet music editions. It also publishes scholarly complete editions of the works of Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms and Haydn. Around 30 employees work at the publishing house's headquarters in Munich.