Deryck Cooke
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- The New Grove late romantic masters
- Language of Music
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- Mahler 1860-1911
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Deryck Cooke (14 September 1919 – 27 October 1976) was a British musician, musicologist and broadcaster. Cooke was born in Leicester to a poor and working class family; his father died when he was a child, but his mother was able to afford piano lessons. Cooke acquired a brilliant technique and began to compose. He won an organ scholarship to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was taught by Patrick Hadley and Robin Orr. His undergraduate studies were interrupted by the Second World War <a href
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Cooke
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Leicester
- Place of death
- London Borough of Croydon
- Employer
- BBC
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- British Army
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- name in native language
- Deryck Cooke
- date of birth
- 1919-09-14
- date of death
- 1976-10-26
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