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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 & Company. The instrument division was sold in 2003.
The company owns the copyrights to much major 20th-century music, including the complete catalog of works by Stravinsky, Bartók, Copland, Britten, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Szpilman and Rachmaninoff. They also have a major arm, BooseyMedia, that provides production music from their archives going back to the 1930s to advertising, film, and television.
The company was lampooned by The Goons as "Goosy and Borks" in their most famous episode, "Lurgi 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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