The Architects of Sound: The Legacy of Boosey & Hawkes To speak of Boosey & Hawkes is to speak of the very heartbeat of twentieth-century music. It is not merely a name found in the archives of publishing, but a monumental force that shaped the sonic landscape of an entire era. The firm’s story is one of visionary convergence, born in London in 1930 from the union of two venerable lineages: Boosey & Company, which traced its roots bac…