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Universal Edition, UEUniversal Edition, UE, music publishers, founded 1901, since 1914 the seat of the company has been situated in the building of the Musikverein concert hall. In 1907 its manager E. Hertzka started to turn the UE into a specialised publishing company for contemporary music, a policy which was continued under its manager H. Winter from 1932 (contracts with G. Mahler, A. Schönberg, F. Schreker, A. Webern, A. Zemlinsky, E. Krenek, etc.). Between 1919 and 1939 the UE published the "Musikblätter des Anbruchs" and 1920-1945 the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. In 1938 the company was aryanized, and from 1940 to 1945 it was merged with the Peters-Verlag publishing company of Leipzig. In 1945 Yella Hertzka re-established the UE in its original form. Today, the company mainly publishes works by contemporary composers (G. v. Einem, F. Cerha, P. Boulez, K. H. Stockhausen, M. Kagel, R. Haubenstock-Ramati, etc.).
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