founding of the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne in 1955, in which Günter Henle played a decisive role, the Henle publishing house expanded beyond its Urtext editions to include the publication of other important scholarly complete editions and scholarly publications in book form. In 1981, when the publishing house appeared at the first German Music Fair in Tokyo, Japan, G. Henle USA Inc. was also founded in North America, initially as a joint venture based in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1985, this sales office was continued as a sole subsidiary of the Munich parent company. Holger A. Siems (born 1942) became managing director, having been the sales manager of the publishing house since 1976. This branch was closed in 2007. Since then, G. Henle Verlag has been represented exclusively on the North American market by the Hal Leonard Corporation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The publishing house also presented itself in China when it attended the first International Book Fair in Beijing in 1986. In 1995, it granted its first licence for sheet music production to the Chinese state publisher People’s Music Publishing House in Beijing. To this day, numerous Urtext editions of G. Henle Verlag for the Chinese market are published under licence with this partner firm, as well as with the Shanghai Music Publishing House. G. Henle Verlag is preparing a printed history of the publishing house for the anniversary year 2023. Henle Publications Urtext Editions The heart of the G. Henle Verlag catalogue are the Urtext (original text) editions: musicologically researched, accurate musical texts for practising musicians, they contain an explanatory apparatus expounding on the sources consulted (autographs, copies, early printed editions) and on the readings chosen (‘Critical Report’). The Urtext programme covers almost the entire range of important piano music and chamber music for smaller orchestrations, complete piano works by J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Joseph Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Schubert, Robert Schumann; in addition, numerous other selected piano works for two or four hands (including Dvořák, Granados, Grieg, Handel, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Reger, Satie, Scarlatti, Scriabin and many more), as well as organ works and the entire standard repertoire for chamber music ensemble. In addition, there are complete editions of Beethoven’s and Haydn’s Lieder, and the principal song cycles of Robert Schumann. Urtext editions in small pocket format (the ‘Studien-Edition’ series), and several facsimile editions of composers’ manuscripts, are also a part of the