In 1901 he joined the
Vienna-based music publishing house
Universal Edition, which had only just been founded. In 1907 he became its Director and remained in that position until his death. It was due to Hertzka's efforts that UE came increasingly to concentrate upon the publication of new music, and his voluminous correspondence with many of Europe's leading composers is a valuable resource for modern scholars. By the time of his death in
Vienna in 1932, UE's catalogue comprised almost 10.000 items, including works by
Gustav Mahler,
Arnold Schoenberg,
Alban Berg,
Anton Webern,
Alexander Zemlinsky,
Franz Schreker,
Alfredo Casella,
Leoš Janáček,
Karol Szymanowski,
Béla Bartók,
Zoltán Kodály,
Kurt Weill,
Hanns Eisler,
Ernst Krenek,
Darius Milhaud, and
Gian Francesco Malipiero. Hertzka died of a heart attack on May 9, 1932. Between 1932 and 1938, the
Emil Hertzka Foundation offered an annual Composition Prize. This was first awarded in 1933, when it was shared between five composers, namely
Roberto Gerhard,
Norbert von Hannenheim,
Julius Schloss,
Ludwing Zenk and
Leopold Spinner. The prize went to
Joseph Matthias Hauer in 1934; to
Viktor Ullmann in 1936, to
Hans Erich Apostel in 1937 and to
Karl Amadeus Hartmann in 1938. In 1934
Luigi Dallapiccola and
Paul Dessau each received a 'Special Acknowledgement'. == References ==