19-647: Friedrich Cerha ( German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈt͜sɛʁha] ; 17 February 1926 – 14 February 2023) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and academic teacher. His ensemble Die Reihe [ de ] in Vienna was instrumental in spreading contemporary music in Austria. He composed several operas, beginning with Baal , based on Brecht's play . He is best known for completing Alban Berg 's opera Lulu by orchestrating its unfinished third act, which premiered in Paris in 1979. Cerha
38-488: A number of significant composers, among these Luciano Berio , Pierre Boulez , Morton Feldman , Mauricio Kagel , György Kurtág , György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen . Later important additions to the catalogue include Harrison Birtwistle , Friedrich Cerha , Georg Friedrich Haas , Cristóbal Halffter , Georges Lentz , Arvo Pärt , David Sawer , Gisela Selden-Goth , and Johannes Maria Staud . UE have also published several significant historical editions, including
57-586: A second time and made his way to the west of Austria, where he lived in the mountains for several months to avoid capture by the Allied forces , until he was eventually able to return to Vienna in November 1945. At the Vienna Music Academy , Cerha studied violin with Váša Příhoda , composition with Alfred Uhl , and music pedagogy. Simultaneously, he studied musicology, German culture and language, and philosophy at
76-455: Is a joint venture founded by leading publishers of Austria-Hungary. [...] As well as publishing the classics and significant instructive works, it will also publish compositions by important modern masters ..." In 1904, UE acquired Aibl publishers, and so acquired the rights to works by Richard Strauss , Max Reger , and other composers. The arrival of Emil Hertzka as managing director in 1907, who remained until his death in 1932, really pushed
95-572: The International Music Score Library Project , an online entity which seeks to make musical scores in the public domain available digitally. In response to a cease-and-desist letter from Universal Edition demanding that certain scores still covered by Austrian copyright be removed, IMSLP closed itself voluntarily, amidst controversy that UE's demands lacked reasonable legal grounds. While Austrian copyright governs works published up to 70 years after its composer's death, IMSLP
114-542: The Leipzig -based publishers Breitkopf & Härtel and Edition Peters . UE itself describes this as an attempt to "simply to counter the predominance of the foreign music trade in Vienna with a domestic music publishing house". In a financial boost for UE, the Austrian Ministry of Education gave a 5 July 1901 decree that Austrian music schools should prefer UE editions over those by German publishers. The firm's creation
133-539: The University of Vienna His dissertation there, on the Turandot topic in music, was completed in 1954. In 1958 Cerha founded the ensemble Die Reihe [ de ] together with Kurt Schwertsik , which was instrumental in spreading contemporary music in Austria. In addition to composing, Cerha earned a reputation as an interpreter of the works of Alban Berg , Arnold Schoenberg , and Anton Webern . This work included
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171-578: The complete works of Claudio Monteverdi . In collaboration with Schott , they have published the Wiener Urtext Edition series since 1972. Originally consisting of works for one or two performers by composers from Johann Sebastian Bach to Johannes Brahms , the series was later expanded to include a limited number of later works, such as the Ludus Tonalis of Paul Hindemith . On 19 October 2007, Universal Edition entered legal proceedings against
190-512: The completion of Berg's unfinished three-act opera Lulu . Cerha orchestrated sections of the third act using Berg's notes as a reference, beginning studies of the subject in 1962. The complete three-act opera was premiered by Pierre Boulez in Paris Opéra on 24 February 1979, and directed by Patrice Chéreau . Alongside his career as a composer and conductor, Cerha taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1959, where he
209-632: The core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market. The firm soon expanded to become one of the most important publishers of modernist and contemporary classical music . Universal Edition was founded on 1 June 1901 in Vienna . It was formed by the publishers Bernhard Herzmansky (himself from the Doblinger [ de ] firm), Adolf Robitschek [ de ] and Josef Weinberger [ de ] as an attempt to compete with
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#1732863215437228-649: The firm towards new music. Under Hertzka, UE signed contracts with a number of important contemporary composers, including Béla Bartók and Frederick Delius in 1908; Gustav Mahler , Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schreker in 1909. Mahler's Symphony No. 8 was the first work UE acquired an original copyright to. Anton Webern and Alexander von Zemlinsky were signed in 1910, Karol Szymanowski in 1912, Leoš Janáček in 1917 and Kurt Weill in 1924. Through their association with Schoenberg, it also published many works by Alban Berg . The firm's avant garde directions continued after World War II , when UE published works by
247-485: The first character; please check alternative capitalizations and consider adding a redirect here to the correct title. If the page has been deleted, check the deletion log , and see Why was the page I created deleted? Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_die_reihe " Universal Edition Universal Edition ( UE ) is an Austrian classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna , it originally intended to provide
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285-488: Was announced next month in the Neues Wiener Tagblatt : "Die neue Musikausgabe, welche unter Zusammenwirken der hervorragendsten Interessenten des österreichisch-ungarischen Musikverlages gegründet wurde, [...] [wird] sowohl die Werke der Classiker wie auch die hervorragendsten Werke instructiver Art umfassen [...], denen sich Schöpfungen bedeutender moderner Meister, [...] anreihen werden." "The new music publisher
304-526: Was born in Vienna on 17 February 1926, the son of an electrical engineer. He played the violin at age six, instructed by Anton Pejhovsky, and began composing two years later. At 17, Cerha was drafted as a Luftwaffenhelfer in 1943, and initially served in Achau , near Vienna. During this time, he participated in a number of acts of resistance against the fascist regime. After a semester at the University of Vienna, he
323-641: Was followed by Der Rattenfänger and Der Riese vom Steinfeld , the latter commissioned by the Vienna State Opera, with a libretto by Peter Turrini , and premiered in 2002. Cerha and his wife Gertraud, a music historian, were founding members of the Joseph Marx Society in April 2006. Cerha died in Vienna on 14 February 2023, at age 96. Cerha's compositions were published by Universal Edition , including: Ensemble die reihe From Misplaced Pages,
342-584: Was professor of composition, notation, and interpretation of new music from 1976 to 1988. Cerha composed both orchestral works and operas. His first opera was Baal , based on Brecht's play of the same name , and influenced by Berg's Wozzeck . It was premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1981, with performances at the Vienna State Opera and a production at the Staatsoper Berlin in 1982. It
361-513: Was sent to an officer's school in occupied Denmark. While there, he obtained a number of blank, but signed, marching order papers and deserted. These papers allowed him to remain within German territory for some time as he could use them as proof that he was supposed to be there. However, after a period, he was forced to rejoin a military unit during an advance by the Soviet forces near Pomerania . He deserted
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