Benjamin Cooke
Illustration — Portrait by William Skelton • Illustration — Memorial to Benjamin Cooke in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey Benjamin Cooke (1734 – 14 September 1793) was an English composer, organist and teacher. Cooke was born in London and named after his father, also Benjamin Cooke (1695/1705 – 1743), a music publisher based in Covent Garden (active from 1726 to 1743), whose production included a seminal edition of the collected works of Arcangelo Corelli in study scores comprising all five books of sonatas and the twelve concerti grossi. From the age of nine, Benjamin Cooke the younger was one of four boy sopranos who sang at performances of the Academy of Ancient Music under the Academy's director Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667–1752), who supervised the boys' education.
Benjamin Cooke
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- Born
- 1734
- Died
- 1793
- Occupation
- composer
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- English
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Illustration — Portrait by William Skelton • Illustration — Memorial to Benjamin Cooke in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey Benjamin Cooke (1734 – 14 September 1793) was an English composer, organist and teacher. Cooke was born in London and named after his father, also Benjamin Cooke (1695/1705 – 1743), a music publisher based in Covent Garden (active from 1726 to 1743), whose production included a seminal edition of the collected works of Arcangelo Corelli in study scores comprising all five books of sonatas and the twelve concerti grossi. From the age of nine, Benjamin Cooke the younger was one of four boy sopranos who sang at performances of the Academy of Ancient Music under the Academy's director Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667–1752), who supervised the boys' education.
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Born in 1734, died in 1793.
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- 1.Shaw, Watkins. Cooke, Benjamin (ii). Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online.
- 2.Smith, William C. Cooke, Benjamin (i). Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online.
- 3.Johnstone, H. Diack. The Academy of Ancient Music (1726-1802): Its History, Repertoire and Surviving Programmes. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle. 51. 1-136. 2020.
- 4.White, Bryan. Dr Cooke’s Protest: Benjamin Cooke, Samuel Arnold, and the Directorship of the Academy of Ancient Music. Journal of the Royal Musical Association. 148. 2023.
- 5.Cooke, Benjamin.
- 6.Matthews, Betty (1985). Members of the Royal Society of Musicians 1734-1984. London: The Royal Society of Musicians. p. 50
- 7.Johnstone, H. Diack. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
- 8.Benjamin and Robert Cooke Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
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