Barry Cooper
Biography
Barry Cooper lectured in music at the University of Aberdeen from 1974 to 1990, before moving to Manchester, and is known mainly as a musicologist. He is general editor and co-author of The Beethoven Compendium (1991), which has become a standard reference book and has been translated into five other languages. His other books include Beethoven and the Creative Process and Beethoven’s Folksong Settings, and studies of English Baroque keyboard music and of music theory in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries.
His identification of some sketches for what would have been Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony, and his subsequent completion of a performing version of its first movement in 1988, attracted widespread international attention. he has also written articles on Beethoven and other subjects for Music & Letters, The Musical Times, The Beethoven Journal, and many other periodicals.