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Boosey & Hawkes was founded in 1930 through the merger of two respected music companies, Boosey & Company and Hawkes & Son. [1] The Boosey family was of Franco–Flemish origin. [2] Boosey & Company traces its roots back to John Boosey, a bookseller in London in the 1760s–1770s. [3]
This is a list of compositions by Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022), a British composer of contemporary classical music. Birtwistle's music was published by Universal Edition until 1994, and since then by Boosey & Hawkes.
Samuel Soden (20 May 1925 – 29 August 1991), [1] known as Sam Fonteyn, was an English composer and pianist, whose most significant output was for the Boosey & Hawkes Music Library, for which he composed and recorded many works. [2] Most are short character pieces for the piano with colourful titles indicating the images the pieces are meant ...
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]
Published by Boosey & Hawkes. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Opera in a prologue and two acts, 101'. Libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after the novella by Henry James. Premiered on 14 September 1954 at Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: Music-theatre for community performance, 50'.
Britten's Purcell realizations is a common name for compositions for voice and piano by Benjamin Britten which are arrangements of works by Henry Purcell. Boosey & Hawkes published 45 of them, titled The Purcell Collection – Realizations by Benjamin Britten.
The suite was published in 1923 by Boosey & Hawkes as Folk Song Suite. The part titled "concert flute and piccolo", although singular, requires at least two players since the flute and piccolo parts are simultaneous for much of the suite, and the final movement includes split parts. Other parts that require two players are the oboes and B ...
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.