Helen Wallace
Boosey & Hawkes: The Publishing Story
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Details
- Product Type
- Book (softcover)
- Author / Composer
- Helen Wallace
- Product number
- 466140
- Languages
- english
- Release Year
- 2007
- Extent
- 256 Pages
Description
A rare look behind the scenes of a publishing company as it works with composers to shape musical history. Rather than wage a price war, Leslie Boosey and Ralph Hawkes decided to merger their rival businesses in 1930, expanding from their London base to build a worldwide operation. Signing Bartók and Strauss and investing in talented young composers like Britten and Copland, the company fully came of age with the acquisation of Serge Koussevitzky's Russian catalogue with its masterpieces by Stra...






