Greville Cooke
Greville Cooke (* 1894 ; † 1992 ) was an English composer and music teacher.
Cooke was ordained a Church of England priest in 1918 , lived in Tavistock, Ealing, St Paul's Cransley and Buxted, and became a canon of Peterborough Cathedral in 1955 .
He also trained as a musician at the Royal Academy of Music , where he was a piano student of Tobias Matthay , and at Christ's College in Cambridge (organ) and taught at the Royal Academy from 1925 to 1959. In addition to church music (hymns, anthems), he mainly composed piano pieces and small chamber music works. The best known were the piano pieces Reefs End and High Marley Rest , which he dedicated to his teacher Matthay.
Works
- Daydreams , song
- Shepherd Boy's song , song
- My Heaven , song
- Sea Croon for cello and piano
- Meadowsweet for piano
- Whispering Willows for piano
- A Day at the Sea for piano
- Sundown for piano
- Reef's End for piano
- Haldon Hills for piano
- Cormorant Crag for piano
- Pets' Corner for piano
- High Marley Rest for piano, 1933; for violin and piano, 1935
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- Musicweb International - A Greville Cooke Catalog
- Musicweb International - The Garlands of British Light Music - Garland 53 Ballads Composers
- Encyclopedia.com - Greville Cooke: High Marley Rest
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cooke, Greville |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1894 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1992 |