Documentation relating to Boosey & Hawkes' acquisition in 1943 of the rights to publish and distribute music in the catalogue of the publishers Fürstner, including the rights of the operas of Richard Strauss.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish
Business correspondence and papers of Dr. Ernst Roth (1 June 1896 – 17 July 1971), Music Publications and Production Director of Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd. from 1945; later Managing Director and Deputy Chairman until his retirement in 1964. The files were accumulated in the course of business inv...
Business files of Leslie Boosey (1887–1979), chairman of Boosey & Co. from 1920 to 1930 and of Boosey & Hawkes almost continuously from 1930 to 1964. This sub-series consists of two sub-sub-series of files of general correspondence accumulated by Leslie Boosey himself, and one piecemeal ...
Correspondence and papers of Anthony Gishford, a director of Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd.. With files relating to the publication of Boosey & Hawkes' journal 'Tempo', numbers 37 to 51.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish
Business correspondence and papers created by David Adams, manager of Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. (New York). reunited from various places, to, from or relating to Aaron Copland, and internal correspondence with Muriel James of Boosey & Hawkes' Copyright Department.
Correspondence with musicians or composers with whom Boosey & Hawkes considered their association most important. These papers were extracted from their original files some time after they ceased to be current, but before their acquisition by the British Library. In some cases, these files...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish
Correspondence and papers involving or relating to Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), the publication or performance of his music, or the adminstration of his estate after his death. Others connected with Igor Stravinsky, such as Lillian Libman and Robert Craft, are regular correspondents.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Church Slavic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Slovak, and Spanish
Music from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Archive: Thespis (W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan)
Scope & Content:
Thespis was the first collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan, first performed at the Gaiety Theatre, London, from 26 December 1871 to 8 March 1872 (64 performances). No complete musical score was ever published and most of the music has been lost, except for a ballad ('Little maid of Arcade...