Cooper, Martin (Du Pré)
Cooper, Martin (Du Pré)
Cooper, Martin (Du Pré) , English music writer on music, father of Imogen Cooper; b. Winchester, Jan. 17, 1910; d. Richmond, Surrey, March 15, 1986. He studied at Hertford Coll., Oxford (B.A., 1931) and with Wellesz in Vienna (1932–34). He then was music critic for the London Mercury (1935–38), Daily Herald (1946–50), and the Daily Telegraph (1950–54; chief music critic, 1954–76)6); also was ed. of the Musical Times (1953–56).
Writings
(all publ. in London unless otherwise given): Gluck (1935); Bizet (1938); Opéra comique (1949); Profits de musiciens anglais (Paris, 1950); French Music from the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré (1951); Russian Opera (1951); ed. The Concise Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1958; 3rd ed., rev., 1975); ed. vol. X, The Modern Age 1890–1960, in The New Oxford History of Music (1974); D. Cooper, ed., Judgements of Value: Selected Writings on Music (Oxford, 1988; includes many of Cooper’s writings).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire