Laaber

Laaber is a German music publishing house founded in 1975 by Henning Mueller-Buscher, born in Leipzig on 8 December 1944. Over time it absorbed other imprints: in 1980 it incorporated Arno Volk and in 1994 Frits Knuf.

Its output includes reference series such as Grosse Komponisten und ihre Zeit, in 25 volumes, and Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft, in 13 volumes, edited by Carl Dahlhaus. Also notable is Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen, in 15 volumes, edited by Siegfried Mauser, as well as complete editions of the writings of Dahlhaus and of Arnold Schoenberg.

In music editing, it has published a critical edition of the works of Corelli, and it publishes the journals Musiktheories and Analecta Musicologica.