Arnold Cooke

Arnold Cooke (* November 4, 1906 in Gomersal / Yorkshire, † 13 August 2005 Five Oak Green / Kent) was an English composer.

Cooke studied at Cambridge at Cyril Rootham and 1929-1932 in Berlin with Paul Hindemith. From 1933 he was professor of music theory and composition at the Royal Manchester School of Music in 1947 at Trinity College of Music in London.

In addition to two operas, a ballet, six symphonies, a piano, a flute, an oboe, two clarinets and a violin concerto he wrote more than one hundred and fifty pieces of chamber music and songs.

Cooke was a representative of a neo-baroque style. In 1975 he was awarded by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London, the commissioned work for his Symphony No. 4