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Universal Edition in the Zinfonia Loan System
2013-10-01
In October Universal Edition will become a partner of Zinfonia – a portal that brings together music publishers around the world. Zinfonia Portal was founded in July 2011 by Peter Grimshaw (BTM Innovation Pty Ltd) and four of the largest publishers of contemporary music today: Boosey & Hawkes (part of the Imagem Group), Universal Music Publishing Classical, Music Sales Group and Edition Peters Group. PWM joined the project in November of that year and began working on the Polish language version as well as customizing the programme to Polish financial and tax requirements.www.zinfonia.com is the only platform of this type that collects complete information from loan directories of individual publishers. In this way, you can find all the information about the availability of a work in a given country, full specifications of the work and information about the composer in one place. It features pieces from the catalogues of PWM, Boosey & Hawkes, Music Sales Group, Edition Peters Group and Universal Music Publishing Classical and also the catalogues of publishers that joined later, such as Oxford University Press and Fennica Gehrman. The greater the number of publishers, the easier the ordering process will become, but the pace of change is also dependent on the level of interest from the orchestras and ordering materials by Zinfonia.
Universal Edition (EU) is one of the leading European publishers of classical music. Founded in 1901, during more than 100 years in business they have published more than 30 000 works, collaborating with distinguished composers such as Béla Bartók, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schönberg, Leoš Janáček, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Arvo Pärt. In addition to the works of contemporary composers they also publish complete works collections by earlier composers, for example Claudio Monteverdi's work.
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