Universal Edition
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Universal Edition AG (often abbreviated UE ) is the name of an Austrian music publisher founded in 1901 with headquarters in Vienna on Karlsplatz 6.
History
Main reason in 1901 in Vienna took place under the name " Universal Edition Actiengesellschaft " publishing establishment was the intention of Austria-Hungary, imports of sheet music, in particular the dominant publishers in Leipzig to become independent. The founders were Robitschek Adolf, Josef Weinberger and Bernhard Herzmansky by Doblinger.
Stand first music of the classical and romantic era in the foreground, the focus of publications shifted after a few years on the respective contemporary music. 1906 took over the UE, for example, from other publishers the rights to Mahler's symphonies 1-4, and graduated in 1908 a direct contract with the composer on the pressure of the 8th Symphony. Under Emil Hertzka (Director 1907-1932 ) was followed by names such as Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Zemlinsky, Marx, Janáček, Szymanowski, Bartók, Kodály, Weill, Wellesz, Erwin Schulhoff, Franz Schreker or Eisler. 1932 included the catalog of the UE about 10,000 numbers.
1919 was the publishing out the music magazine music sheets of the dawn, which appeared until 1937. 1924-1930 to the desk and baton joined added. Both institutions took advantage of the publishing successfully, to bring through articles, reports and reviews its publishing composers internationally in the discussion.
In the third realm of the later highly decorated publisher Alfred Schlee procured through diplomacy at the National Socialists, that this in regard to the conservation of a monument Degenerate Music paid the debt of highly indebted publishing and thereby saved the publisher and numerous manuscripts from destruction. The Jewish part of the publishing editors were forced to share the fate of many laid composers and provided with prohibitions, exiled or deported.
During the Second World War, the company was in German hands, went to 1945 into Austrian ownership and continued the tradition of recording music in the presence of their program away. The 1955 Herbert Eimert, composed by Stockhausen published in UE booklet episode " the series" informed via serial and electronic music. For publishing program, which comprised some 32,000 titles in 2000, including, among other journals and textbooks and pocket scores, since 1972 under the title " Wiener Urtext Edition" numerous original editions of music of the pre-Classical to the Romantic, and later of the 20th century (together with the publishing house B. Schott 's Söhne, Mainz).
Among the contemporary composers in the publishing program of the UE are about Wolfgang Rihm, Pierre Boulez, Arvo Pärt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Friedrich Cerha, Luciano Berio, Johannes Maria Staud, Georg Friedrich Haas, Georges Lentz, Daniel Schnyder or Vykintas Baltakas.