The music publisher Universal Edition, which was founded in 1901 in Vienna as a publisher of classic instructional literature, developed rapidly within a few short years following its establishment into a future-oriented publishing house serving many of contemporary musical life's most creative talents.

Today, Universal Edition's catalogue encompasses over 30,000 items and is inseparably linked with the great composers and musical developments of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Universal Edition's corporate objectives include:

• serving composers as a publisher by producing performance materials or music for public sale
  
• the international promotion of composers and their works 
  
• the expansion of its progressive catalogue of musical works 
  
• managing and controlling copyrights on musical works 
  
• publishing musicological editions (complete editions) 
  
• publishing literature for learners and performers according to the latest developments