Arnold Atkinson Cooke (4 November 1906 – 13 August 2005) was a British composer.Cooke was born at Gomersal, West Yorkshire, into a family of carpet manufacturers. As a child Cooke learned the piano, and later the cello, and began composing by the age of 7 or 8. He was educated at Streete Preparatory School, Repton School and at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he read History, taking Part 1 of his Tripos in 1927, earning his B.A. He changed to read music with his composition teacher E. J. Dent. At Cambridge, Cooke continued to play the cello in the CUMS orchestra and in a string quartet. He was President of the Cambridge Musical Society from 1927 to 1928.

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