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Born:
4 November
1906
— Gomersal, Yorkshire
— England
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Music
- Passacaglia, scherzo and finale for strings (1931)
- Harp quintet (1932)
- Quartet for flute and strings (1935-6)
- Sonata for two pianos (1938)
- Piano Concerto (1940)
- Piano Trio (1944)
- Oboe Quartet (1948)
- Mary Barton, opera (1949-54)
- Clarinet Concerto (1955)
- Violin Concerto (1958)
- Jabez and the Devil, ballet (1959-60)
- Wind Quintet (1961)
- Fantasia for organ (1964)
- Variations on a theme of Dufay (1966)
- Piano Quintet (1969)
- Cello Concerto (1972-3)
- The Invisible Duke, comic opera (1975-6)
- A Jacobean Suite (1976)
- Concerto for orchestra (1986)
- Symphonies
- Several sonatas
- Fugal Adventures (organ)
- Suite for organ
- etc.
Life
Studied under Dent at Cambridge (1925-9, BA, MusB; MusD 1948) and (1929-32) with Hindemith at the Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin. Cooke then succeeded Walter Leigh as music director of the Festival Theatre, Cambridge. Taught at the Royal Manchester College of Music (1933-8) and after naval service during World War II he was appointed professor of harmony, counterpoint and composition at Trinity College of Music, London in 1947, where he remained for thirty-one years.
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