Boosey & Hawkes

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History

Boosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher that claims to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world. Until 2003, it was also a major manufacturer of brass, string and wind musical instruments.

Formed in 1930 through the merger of two well-established British music publishers, Hawkes & Son, Ltd. and Boosey & Co, Ltd., the company owns the copyrights or agencies to much major 20th century music, including works by Bartók, Bernstein, Britten, Copland, Kodály, Mahler, and Richard Strauss. The acquisition of Serge Koussevitzky's Edition Russe de Musique in 1947 represented a major turning point in the building of its 20th century music catalogue, and marked the addition of numerous works of composers like Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev. Boosey and Hawkes, with headquarters in London, also publishes many prominent contemporary composers, such as Louis Andriessen, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Henryk Górecki, Heinz Karl Gruber, Robin Holloway, Magnus Lindberg, James MacMillan, Olga Neuwirth, Michael Nyman, Kurt Schwertsik and Mark-Anthony Turnage. The company's New York branch has developed its own catalogue emphasizing the works of American composers, including John Adams, Elliott Carter, David Del Tredici, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem and Steve Reich.

Boosey & Hawkes Music Shop has had a shop at 295 Regent Street in London since the 1930s. It has the UK's largest selection of printed music from all publishers, and operates a worldwide mail order service.

Important Acquisitions

• Edition Russe de Musique (1947)
• Arrow Music Press (incl. Cos Cob Press) (1956)
• Anton J. Benjamin (incl. N. Simrock) (2002)

Imprints, Agencies, Addresses

• Boosey & Hawkes Ltd., 295 Regent Street, London W. 1
• Boosey & Hawkes Inc., 43-47 West 23rd Street, New York City
• Boosey & Hawkes (Canada) Ltd., 10 Shuter Street, Toronto
• Boosey & Hawkes (Australia) Pty. Ltd., National Building, 250 Pitt Street, Sydney

Plate Numbers

Plate	Composer	Work	Year
2	Stanford	The Canterbury Pilgrims (vocal score)	1896?
5	Stanford	Shamus O'Brien, Op.61 (vocal score)	1896
6	Stanford	Phaudrig Crohoore, Op.62 (vocal score)	1896
17	Stanford	Much Ado About Nothing, Op.76a (vocal score)	1901
198-5	Liddle	The Lord Is My Shepherd	1902
298-8	Maybrick	The Holy City	1920
1632-7	Sanderson	Break o Day	1915
H.2670	Elgar	Sea Pictures, Op.37	1899
H.3157-H.3162	Stanford	6 Irish Folksongs, Op.78	1901
H.3590	Elgar	Pomp and Circumstance, Op.39 (arr. organ solo)	1902
H.4347	Lehmann	The 4 Sunbeams	1904
H.4404	Stanford	Songs of the Sea, Op.91 (choral score)	1904
H.5099	Stanford	Stabat Mater, Op.96 (vocal score)	1907
H.9181	Stanford	Songs of the Sea, Op.91 (SATB Arrangement)	1904
H.9895	Stanford	Mass via victrix, Op.173 (vocal score)	1920
H.15683	Rowley	Outward Bound	1922
H.15808	Pfitzner	Piano Concerto, Op.31 (arr. piano 4 hds.)	1942
B&H 16408	Diamond	Music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet	1948
B.&H. 17865	Copland	Twelve poems of Emily Dickinson	1951

B.H.Bk.

Plate	Composer	Work	Year
414	Chanler	Eight epitaphs	1956
598		Cos Cob song volume	1962-3
679	Argento	Six Elisabethan songs	1970
761	Argento	From the diary of Virginia Woolf	1975