Deryck Cooke

Deryck Cooke (September 14, 1919 - October 27, 1976) was a British musicologist who was born in Leicester.

He studied at Cambridge University and spent two stints working for the BBC music department (1947-59 and 1965-76). He prepared (in association with Berthold Goldschmidt, David Matthews and Colin Matthews) a "performing version" of the unfinished draft of Mahler's 10th Symphony, the first version of which was premièred on 13 August 1964 at The Proms by the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Goldschmidt. Revised editions followed; the work has been recorded by Sir Simon Rattle with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (1980) and the Berlin Philharmonic (2001).

Cooke's other works include

The Language of Music
An Introduction to "Der Ring Des Nibelungen" (audio, with extracts from Solti's recording)
I Saw the World End: A Study of Wagner's Ring (unfinished at his death)
Vindications: Essays on Romantic Music (posthumous collection of essays and broadcast scripts)

He died in Croydon of a brain haemorrhage.

[edit] Articles

Cooke, D. (1966): 'Anton Bruckner', in R. Simpson (ed.), The Symphony, Vol.1: Haydn to Dvořák, 283. London.
Cooke, D. (1969): 'The Bruckner Problem Simplified', Musical Times, Vol.CX, 142, 362, 479, 828.
Cooke, D. (1980): 'Bruckner, (Joseph) Anton', in S. Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, iii, 352.
Cooke, D. (1985): 'Bruckner', in S. Sadie (ed.), Late Romantic Masters: Bruckner, Brahms, Dvořák. London.