Lecture by Dr. Norbert Gertsch

Managing Director of G. Henle Publishers

Dr. Norbert Gertsch studied piano solo with Alfons Kontarsky at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and read musicology and philosophy at the universities in Salzburg and Heidelberg on a scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”. In 1996 he wrote his doctoral thesis on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (as part of the New Complete Edition) under Ludwig Finscher.

In the following year, he began to work at G. Henle Publishers, initially as an editor for electronic publishing. After working on a two-year project (1999–2000) sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) preparing a new Beethoven Catalogue of Works, he became a scholarly editor at G. Henle Publishers. In 2003 he became Editor-in-Chief, in 2009 Deputy Managing Director and Head of Publishing. As of 1 January 2024, the Executive Board of the Günter Henle Foundation has appointed him as the new managing director.

Norbert Gertsch has published numerous Urtext editions for G. Henle Publishers for piano, string and wind instruments, including volumes for a new edition of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas together with Murray Perahia.

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