The Handel Yearbook is the scholarly publication of the George Frideric Handel Society. It regularly publishes the proceedings of the International Scholarly Conferences, which take place annually as part of the Handel Festival in Halle and in collaboration with the Handel House Foundation. In addition, the Yearbook includes the annual report of the president of the Handel Society, the text of the public festival lecture, statistics on staged performances of Handel’s works, and an overview of new publications on the subject of Handel.
The Handel Yearbook has been published in this form since 1955. Between 1928 and 1933, a series of six volumes of the Handel Yearbook had already been published, edited by Rudolf Steglich on behalf of the Handel Society. This association, founded in 1925 and dissolved in 1935, saw itself as the successor to the German Handel Society, which had been initiated as early as 1856 by Chrysander and Gervinus in anticipation of the anniversary year of 1859.
Since the 1996/1997 edition, the Handel Yearbook has been published by Bärenreiter. It is available online and in bookstores; members of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft e. V. get the Handel Yearbook as a free membership benefit. Starting with the 2020 edition, the yearbook is available as an e-book (PDF) in addition to the printed version.
