Arnold (Atkinson) Cooke

Born: 4 November 1906, Gomersal, Yorkshire (England)
Died: 13 August 2005, Five Oak Green, Kent (England)

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[details ←] Rondo in B-Flat Major Piano, French Horn,
[details ←] Sonata Piano, Bassoon,
[details ←] Concerto Piano, Recorder, orchestra,
[details ←] Serial Theme and Variations Recorder,
[details ←] Alla Marcia Piano, Clarinet,
[details ←] Concertante Quartet
[details ←] Suite Clarinet,
[details ←] Suite Clarinet,
[details ←] Quartett Piano, Violin, Cello, Recorder, Harpsichord,

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.

Biography

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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