Boosey & Hawkes
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Boosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher, the largest classical music publisher in the world.
It was founded in 1930 through the merger of two respected music companies, Boosey & Company and Hawkes & Son. The instrument division was sold in 2003.
The company owns the copyrights to much major 20th century music, including the complete catalogue of works by Stravinsky, Bartók, Copland, Britten, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss and Rachmaninoff. The company also has a major arm, BooseyMedia, that provides production music from its archives (which go back to the 1930s) to advertising, film, and television companies.
The company was lampooned by The Goons as "Goosy and Borks" in their most famous episode, "Lurgy Strikes Britain," as well as by Peter Schickele who named one of P.D.Q. Bach's friends Jonathan "Boozey" Hawkes.
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