William Henry Hawkes

paikka: London

Syntynyt: 1865

kuolema: 1930

Elämäkerta:

Hawkes & Son was a music publishing company founded in London in 1865 by William Henry Hawkes. The company originally sold orchestral sheet music and also made musical instruments. In 1930, Hawkes & Son merged with Boosey & Company to form Boosey & Hawkes, which became the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world. Boosey & Hawkes is known for publishing the works of many prominent 20th-century composers, including Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Sergei Prokofiev, and Igor Stravinsky. The company also publishes many contemporary composers, such as John Adams, Karl Jenkins, James MacMillan, Mark-Anthony Turnage, and Steve Reich. Boosey & Hawkes has subsidiaries in Berlin and New York and sells sheet music via its online shop.