Emil Hertzka Prize

The Emil Hertzka Memorial Prize was named after the director of the Universal Edition music publisher , Emil Hertzka , and was donated after his death in 1932. Well-known composers such as Alban Berg , Anton Webern and Ernst Krenek were on the jury for the prize, which was awarded from 1933 to 1937 .

Prize winner for composition

1933

• Otto Jokl for his first string quartet op.25
• Ludwig Zenk for his First Piano Sonata op. 1 in one movement
• Norbert von Hannenheim for his fifth symphony
  Roberto Gerhard

1934

• Otto Jokl for his orchestral suite op.26
• Viktor Ullmann for the orchestral version of the Variations, Fantasy and Double Fugue on a small piano piece by Arnold Schönberg
• Josef Matthias Hauer
• Luigi Dallapiccola and Paul Dessau received exceptional recognition

1936

• Viktor Ullmann for the opera "Der Sturz des Antichrist" op. 9
• Will Eisenmann for the opera “The King of the Dark Chamber” op. 12

1937

• Hans Erich Apostel for his Requiem op.4
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann for cantata "Friede Anno '48"

literature

• Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Volume 5. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - "The fall of the Antichrist" . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on March 27, 2018]).