Deryck Cooke

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Deryck Victor Cooke (born September 14, 1919 in Leicester , † October 26, 1976 in Thornton Heath ) was an English musicologist who became internationally known for completing the unfinished 10th Symphony of Gustav Mahler .

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Deryck Cooke was a graduate of Cambridge University . From 1947 to 1959 and from 1965 to 1976 he worked in the music department of the BBC .

1959 began Cooke existing short score Designs the unfinished 10th Symphony supplement Gustav Mahler. He was supported by the composer and conductor Berthold Goldschmidt , who performed the result in 1960 with the Philharmonia Orchestra London on the BBC. However, this version still had gaps in the two scherzo movements of the symphony. On the basis of further sketch sheets later made available to him by the Mahler family, Cooke created a first complete version in the following years. This was premiered by Goldschmidt at the Proms on August 13, 1964, again with the Philharmonia Orchestra London. In 1965 the first record of this version was made (on the CBS label with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy ). Another recording followed in 1966 under Jean Martinon .

By 1972 Cooke finally worked on a second, revised version together with David Matthews and Colin Matthews , which premiered on October 15, 1972 with the New Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Wyn Morris in London and appeared in print in 1976. Further recordings followed, for example with Simon Rattle or Eliahu Inbal . From 1972 to 1975 Cooke revised his version again. This revised version was only published posthumously in print in 1989 .

The performance version of Cooke's 10th symphony of Mahler in its various versions is, although not undisputed, to this day - despite further attempts at reconstruction by other musicians - the most played version, provided that Mahler's entire 10th symphony is included in the program. Cooke, who clearly differentiated between Mahler's sketches and his own additions in his edition, never made any claim to authenticity, but always spoke of a “performing version” that did not claim to represent Mahler's presumed final version of the work .

In addition to Mahler's work, Cooke's main research interests were the composers Anton Bruckner and Richard Wagner .

literature

  • Brockhaus Riemann music lexicon . Piper / Schott, 1989
  • Knut Franke: LP-Beitext CBS 61 447 (Mahler, 10th Symphony, Fassg. Cooke, Philadelphia Orch., Conducted by Eugene Ormandy)
  • Jörg Rothkamm:  Cooke, Deryck. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 4 (Camarella - Couture). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orbituary: Deryck Cooke. In: The Musical Times. Vol. 117, no. 1606 (Dec. 1976), p. 1025 ( JSTOR 958325 ).
  2. ^ Michael Steinberg: Symphony No. 10 by Gustav Mahler , 3 pp., Undated, at mahlerarchives.net ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mahlerarchives.net
personal data
SURNAME Cooke, Deryck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooke, Deryck Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1976
Place of death Thornton Heath