Boosey & Hawkes is the largest specialist classical music publishing company in the world, with offices in New York, London and Berlin. Their impressive catalog contains some of the most popular composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Learn what else makes Boosey & Hawkes unique from other publishers in our interview below.
Q: When was Boosey & Hawkes founded?
Boosey & Hawkes was formed in 1930 when two long established London companies joined forces rather than continuing to compete. Boosey & Company had been founded in the 1760s when John Boosey opened a music lending library, expanding with pioneering inexpensive editions of the classics and acquiring the rights to works by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi. Its rival, Hawkes & Son, was set up by William Henry Hawkes in 1865, concentrating on band and orchestral music publishing and the manufacture of instruments. The company directors at the time of the merger, Leslie Boosey and Ralph Hawkes, soon established Boosey & Hawkes on the international publishing scene, signing composers including Bartók, Britten, Stravinsky, Copland and Richard Strauss. Continue reading ‘Publisher Spotlight: Boosey & Hawkes’
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