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Hawkes & Son (initially Rivière & Hawkes), [2] a rival to Boosey & Company, was founded in 1865 by William Henry Hawkes selling orchestral sheet music. The company also made musical instruments and spare parts such as clarinet reeds , and by 1925 Hawkes had set up an instrument factory in Edgware , North London . [ 6 ]
Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Limited was incorporated on 23 September 1977. It was established by a group of local composers to replace the UK-based Performing Rights Society in Hong Kong, which had been operating in the city since 1946. [2]
Tempo is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that specialises in music of the 20th century and contemporary music. It was established in 1939 as the 'house magazine' of the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes. [1] Tempo was the brain-child of Arnold Schoenberg's pupil Erwin Stein, who worked for Boosey & Hawkes as a music editor.
Sir Harrison Birtwistle biography and works on the UE website (publisher of his music until 1994) Harrison Birtwistle biography and works on the Boosey & Hawkes website (publisher of his music since 1994) Cross, J.: Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music. (Faber & Faber, 2000.) Has a comprehensive work list up to 1998
Boosey & Hawkes was sold to Imagem in April 2008 for £126m by its private equity owner, HgCapital. The sale was one of the world's largest of classical music. Hg Capital took Boosey & Hawkes off the stock exchange in 2003 for £75m. Under its ownership, the group made six acquisitions in new areas like jazz and tango.
McDonagh has composed works for orchestra, chamber music ensembles and pedagocial purposes. Collections of her compositions have been published by Boosey & Hawkes and are featured regularly in the ABRSM, Royal Irish Academy of Music and other exam syllabi. McDonagh is a professor of cello at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland. [1]
John Boosey was a bookseller in 18th century London. He stocked foreign-language titles and also ran a circulating library on King Street. [1] [2] His son Thomas Boosey continued the business. The Boosey family remained in the publishing industry and in 1930 formed Boosey & Hawkes, music publisher. [3] [4]
Homage to Paderewski was commissioned by the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes in 1941 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Paderewski's American debut in 1891. It was Zygmunt Stojowski who initiated the venture. He encouraged some composer friends of Paderewski's to write miniatures for the anniversary.