Barry Cooper

Barry Cooper, July 2008

Barry Cooper (* 1949 in Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex ) is an English musicologist.

Life

Cooper studied musicology and organ at Oxford , received his Masters in 1973 and PhD in 1974. After teaching at St Andrews University , he went to Aberdeen University . Since 1990 he has been a professor at the University of Manchester .

His research interests are in English baroque music and Ludwig van Beethoven . He is editor and author of the Beethoven Compendium (1991). This standard work on Beethoven research has now been translated into French, German and Japanese.

The premiere of his reconstruction of the first movement of Beethoven's 10th Symphony in the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1988 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Walter Weller caused a sensation . The London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wyn Morris has now also recorded the Beethoven fragment.

In addition, he has reconstructed the long-lost slow movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in G major op. 18 No. 2 , which the Quatuor Danel premiered in Manchester in September 2011.

Cooper also rediscovered 17th century French spinet music.

Books

• English solo keyboard music of the middle and late baroque , New York: Garland, 1989 (= Diss., Oxford 1974)
• Beethoven and the Creative Process , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990
• The Beethoven Compendium: A Guide to Beethoven's Life and Music , London: Thames and Hudson, 1991
• Beethoven's Folksong Settings: Chronology, Sources, Style , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994
• Beethoven , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 (in the Master Musicians Series ) - 2nd edition New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
• Child Composers and Their Works: A Historical Survey , Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2009
• Beethoven: An Extraordinary Life , London: ABRSM, 2013

Essays

• The Evolution of the First Movement of Beethoven's " Waldstein" Sonata , in: Music and Letters , Vol. 58 (1977), pp. 170-191
• Newly Identified Sketches for Beethoven's Tenth Symphony , in: Music and Letters , Vol. 66 (1985), pp. 9-18
• The composition of "And I feel" in Beethoven's Fidelio , in: The Music Review , Vol. 47 (1986/87), pp. 231-237
• Beethoven's Portfolio of Bagatelles , in: Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Vol. 112 (1987), pp. 208-228
• The Ink in Beethoven's "Kafka" Sketch Miscellany , in: Music and Letters , Vol. 68 (1987), pp. 315-332
• The First Movement of Beethoven's Tenth Symphony: A Realization , in: The Beethoven Newsletter , Vol. 3 (1988), pp. 25-31
• The Clementi-Beethoven Contract of 1807: A Reinvestigation , in: Muzio Clementi : Studies and Prospects , ed. by Roberto Illiano u. a., Bologna 2002, pp. 337-353
• The Arrival of Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' Quartets in Manchester , in: Manchester Sounds , Vol. 5 (2005); Pp. 53-62
• The Amazing Early Works of Frederick Ouseley , in: The Musical Times , Vol. 147 (2006), pp. 49-58
• Beethoven's Uses of Silence , in: The Musical Times , Vol. 152 (2011), pp. 25-43

Web links

• Literature by and about Barry Cooper in the catalog of the German National Library