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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 ]
Mairants commissioned German guitar manufacturer Framus to make further Zenith Guitars, with Boosey & Hawkes the sole distributor and each guitar signed by him. These included the Zenith Model 17 acoustic which became Paul McCartney's first guitar and on which he wrote most of his early songs.
In 1948, the group Boosey & Hawkes acquired the Besson London brand. In 2003, Boosey & Hawkes joined The Music Group. In 2006, at the initiative of its CEO, Paul Baronnat, Buffet Crampon acquired two brass instrument brands, Antoine Courtois Paris (created in 1803) and Besson (created in 1837).
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
Gerald Finzi page on the website of his publisher Boosey & Hawkes, including a complete list of works published by Boosey & Hawkes and a discography. The Finzi Trust, the official Finzi Trust website: listen to Finzi's music and read about his life and works, the Trust's work and the Finzi Travel Scholarships.
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. The journal's first editor was Ernest Chapman and it was intended to be a bi-monthly publication.