Cooke, Greville (Personal Name)

nuc86-78516: His Who wrote the fourth gospel?, c1981 (hdg. on NcU rept.: Cooke, Greville; usage: Greville Cooke)

A forgotten English romantic, 2014: label (Greville Cooke) insert (Greville Vaughan Turner Cooke; born July 14, 1894, Ealing, West London; died November 7, 1989, Yeovil District Hospital, North Dorset; composer and pianist; studied composition and piano at Royal Academy of Music; BA degree in history and Mus Bac degree, Cambridge; in 1918, ordained a priest in the Church of England, serving curacies in Ealing and Tavistock; in 1929, elected F.R.A.M. by the Royal Academy of Music; professor of piano and composition at the Royal Academy, 1925 to 1959; the majority of his career in the Anglican Church spent as rector of the village of Cransley, near Kettering; in 1955, made a Canon of Peterborough Cathedral; in 1956, became Rector of Buxted, Sussex; published several books of poetry and textbooks on music and divinity, including The theory of music (1928) and The heresies of orthodoxy (1980))

MusicWeb International WWW site, June 15, 2015: under Composers ( Greville Cooke; born, 1894; died, 1992; educated at Hamilton House, Ealing, Royal Academy of Music, Christ's College, Cambridge; received BA and B.Mus. in 1916; in 1918, ordained to the Anglican priesthood; served in Tavistock, Ealing, St. Paul's, Cransley, and Buxted; professor at the Royal Academy, 1925 to 1959)

Grove music online, June 15, 2015.