Henry Cooke
Henry Cooke (c. 1616 – 13 July 1672) commonly known as Captain Cooke, was an English composer, choirmaster and singer. He was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal and by the outbreak of the English Civil War was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
Henry Cooke
- Born
- 1616. · Lichfield.
- Died
- 1672. · Hampton Court Palace.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- composer and actor.
- Fields
- classical.
- Movements
- Baroque music.
- Languages
- English.
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Henry Cooke (c. 1616 – 13 July 1672) commonly known as Captain Cooke, was an English composer, choirmaster and singer. He was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal and by the outbreak of the English Civil War was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
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He joined the Royalist cause, in the service of which he rose to the rank of captain. The choristers in his charge included his successor and eventual son-in-law Pelham Humfrey, as well as Henry Purcell, John Blow, William Turner, Robert Smith and Michael Wise. On reconstituting the choir of the Chapel Royal, Dussuaze states: Cooke was one of the five English composers who created music for Sir William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes (1656), often called the first English opera.
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1672
Henry Cooke died at Hampton Court Palace.
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- 1.Peter Dennis, Bruce Wood (2001), ‘Cooke, Henry (1615-1672), singer, choir trainer, composer’, in: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press
- 2.William Barclay Squire (1887), ‘Cooke, Henry (d.1672)’, in: Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 12, geïmporteerd naar Wikisource op 22 juli 2012. Gearchiveerd op 24 juni 2018.
- 3.Bruce Wood (2006), ‘The King's Musick’, in: The Sixteen, 'Music from the Chapel Royal. ‘The King's Musick’. CORO. COR16041
- 4.Robert King (1995), Henry Purcell. ‘A greater musical genius England never had’. Londen: Thames and Hudson, blz. 62,
- 5.King, blz. 64
- 6.Gebaseerd op Dennis en Wood (2001)
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