George L. Cobb

George Linus Cobb ( August 31, 1886 in Mexico, New York, † December 25, 1942 in Mexico, New York) was an American composer.

Career

As the son of the businessman Linus B. Cobb and his wife Jeannette George L. Cobb grew up in the middle-class of a small city of the U.S. state of New York before it from 1904 to 1908 at the School of Harmony and Composition Syracuse University a musical education obtained. From this period his first compositions.

Cobb wrote in his main creative period 1909-1927, especially ragtime, blues, waltzes and marches. He became famous with the Russian Rag 1918 incurred. This piano composition processes the main motif of the C sharp minor Prelude from Morceaux de fantaisie by Sergei Rachmaninoff.