Publication of the journal Tempo

With nearly 10,000 subscribers worldwide, the journal Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music has been one of the most important international voices in contemporary music since 1939. Originally founded by Boosey & Hawkes and published by Cambridge University Press since 2003, it has brought together composers, performers, musicologists, and a broad specialist audience for over 80 years. No other periodical has given such continuous and international visibility to the aesthetic, theoretical, and social debates surrounding new music.

Now Tempo was facing closure: Cambridge University Press had decided to discontinue publication. To ensure that the world’s oldest surviving journal of contemporary music can continue to exist, Wolke Verlag, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, will continue to publish Tempo.

Wolke Verlag has specialized in new music for 45 years, with a unique program ranging from monographs on music theater and exhibition catalogs to books on free improvisation. With its network and structures, Wolke Verlag can preserve the journal and develop it further in the long term, not only preserving a unique archive of lively discourse, but also creating a platform that can critically accompany and highlight future developments.

Further information:
wolke-verlag.de