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Benjamin Cooke (
1734 -
14 September 1793) was an
English composer,
organist and
teacher.
Cooke was born in
London and named after his father, a music publisher based in
Covent Garden. From the age of nine, he was one of four boy sopranos who sang at performances of the
Academy of Ancient Music under the Academy's director
Johann Christoph Pepusch (now best known as the composer of the '
Beggar's Opera'), who also supervised the boys' education. In later life Cooke received doctoral degrees in music from both
Oxford and
Cambridge universities.
He was the organist at
Westminster Abbey and master of the Abbey's choristers for over thirty years, as well as being the organist at the church of
St Martins in the Fields. His
Christmas Ode, written in a
Handelian style, is one of his relatively few large-scale pieces to have been successfully revived in recent years. He is also the author of
glees such as
How Sleep the Brave and
Hark! the Lark, as well as a variety of
church music and
organ music. Very many of his musical autographs are now owned by the
Royal College of Music.
At Cooke's death, he was succeeded at the Abbey by
Samuel Arnold, while his son Robert Cooke (1768-1814) was appointed organist of St Martin's in the Fields. Robert Cooke eventually succeeded Arnold at the Abbey.
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