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2 unusual facts about Boosey & Hawkes


Ernst Roth

As a Jew, he emigrated in 1938 to London, where he worked for Boosey & Hawkes.

Ernst Roth (1 June 1896 – 17 July 1971) was a music publisher for Universal Edition in Vienna and Boosey & Hawkes in London, and became the company's director in 1968.


Albert Hawkes

Albert W. Hawkes, a United States Senator from New Jersey in office from January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1949.

Albert W. Hawkes

He was a trustee of the Freedoms Foundation, where the Hawkes Library (in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) was named after him.

His daughter in law, Jane White Hawkes, was the second wife of Alistair Cooke, the British-American journalist and host of Masterpiece Theater.

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This was followed by acquiring the world's leading classical music publishing company Boosey & Hawkes (which includes the catalogues of Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, and Aaron Copland), and Rodgers & Hammerstein, containing the rights to stage and film musicals, and representing hundreds of works by writers including Irving Berlin.


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