Händel-Jahrbuch

The Händel-Jahrbuch (HJb) is a music scientific journal[1] dedicated to the composer George Frideric Handel. It is published annually by the international Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft e.V. in conjunction with the foundation Handel House in Halle. The "scientific secretary" of the Handel Society is also chief editor of the Jahrbuch, and since 2011 the musicologist Annette Landgraf.[2]

Publisher

The Jahrbuch was first published by the Hanoverian musicologist Rudolf Steglich for the neue Händel-Gesellschaft in Leipzig, which had been founded in 1925 by Hermann Abert. From 1928 to 1933, it was published in six volumes by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig.[3]

From 1955, the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft published it as a new series at the Deutscher Verlag für Musik in Leipzig. The first four volumes of the new series can be counted twice as a continuation of the old series. From 1992 to 1995, the Studio-Verlag in Cologne was the responsible publisher.[4]

Since then, the Jahrbuch has been published by Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel and others. In 2008, the Handel House Foundation in Halle (Saale) became a partner.[5]

Content

Contributions to the Händel-Jahrbuch are published mainly in German, partly in English. Whereas between 1967 and 1976 the Jahrbuch published only occasional contributions to the international scholarly conferences held in Halle (Saale) on the occasion of the Händel-Festspiele, regular reports have been published since 1989. In addition, the public ceremonial lectures given at the Handel Festival are also printed. Furthermore, free research contributions receive attention. The economist Manfred Rätzer continues the performance statistics of the baroque composer's operas and oratorios in the yearbook. The volumes also include the Rechenschaftsbericht of the president of the association. In addition, various new publications on Handel are compiled, including new volumes of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA; as a critical complete edition).[6]

Access

The contributions to the Handel Yearbook are listed in the online catalogue (OPAC) of the Bibliothek der Stiftung Händel-Haus in Halle (Saale). The Jahrbuch is available for purchase in bookshops; members of the association receive it as a membership gift.

Editorial office

For more than three decades (1955 to 1988) the Handel researcher Walther Siegmund-Schultze held the position of Scientific Secretary of the Society.

Further reading
  • Konstanze Musketa (translated by Angela Baier): Händel-Jahrbuch (Hjb). In Annette Landgraf, David Vickers (ed.): The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-1-107-66640-5, p. 366.

References
  1. Imogen Fellinger: Die gegenwärtige Situation der Musikzeitschriften in Deutschland. In Fontes Artis Musicae 39 (1992) 2, pp. 169–175, here p. 173.
  2. Vorstandswahl am 1. Juni 2019, haendel.de, retrieved 6 December 2020.
  3. Händel-Jahrbuch on BNF
  4. Händel-Jahrbuch on Haendel.de
  5. Detaileinsicht on MIZ
  6. HÄNDEL-JAHRBUCH in bibliomusicasapienza
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