Robert Cooke
Life
Born: 1768
Died: 13 August 1814
Biography
Robert Cooke was the son of Benjamin Cooke: on his father's death in 1793, he succeeded him as organist of St Martin-in-the-Fields
. In
1802, he succeeded Samuel Arnold as organist of Westminster Abbey. He committed suicide by drowning himself in the Thames, near Millbank.
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List of choral works
- Concord is conquered
- Gales of evening
- Had I but the torrent's might
- In the rose's fragrant shade
- Love and Folly were at play
- Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C
- Round thy pillow
- Sweet warbling bird, with dulcet note
- This bubbling stream not uninstructive flows
- To a friend sincere
- While I listen to thy voice
- Who has peerless Kitty seen?
- Why thus enraged, ye tribes profane?
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