The Handel Yearbook is the academic publication of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft.
It regularly publishes the proceedings of the International Academic Conferences, which take place every year as part of the Handel Festival in Halle and in cooperation with the Handel House Foundation.
In addition, the Yearbook contains the accountability report of the President of the George Frideric Handel Society, the text of the public lecture, an integral part of the Handel Festival program, statistics on staged performances of Handel 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 there was already a series of six volumes of the Handel Yearbook, published 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 initiated by Chrysander and Gervinus in 1856 in view of the jubilee year 1859.

The Handel Yearbook has been published by Bärenreiter-Verlag since 1996/1997.
It can be purchased online and in bookshops; members of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft e. V. receive the Handel Yearbook as a free membership gift. Since the 2020 edition, there has also been an e-book (pdf) version of the yearbook in addition to the printed version.

Handel Yearbook 2024

The Handel Yearbook 2024 has been published in print and is also available as an e-book. It contains the lectures of the International Scholarly Conference 2023 “The Politics of Opera – Handel’s Opera Academies 1719–1737”, the text of the festival lecture by Prof. Dr. Arnold Jacobshagen on the topic “Streit um die Oper – von Händel bis heute”, free research essays, the President’s report as well as information on performances of Handel operas and new publications on Handel.