Lindsay Cooper

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lindsay Cooper
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Mar 3, 1951(1951-03-03)
Age	73
Date Of Death	September 18, 2013, London, United Kingdom
Birthplace	London Borough of Haringey
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Lindsay Cooper Biography

Lindsay Cooper is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on March 3, 1951 in London Borough of Haringey, England, United Kingdom.

Lindsay Cooper was born in Hornsey, North London. She began piano lessons at the age of 11, but switched to bassoon a few years later. Between 1965 and 1968, she studied classical music and bassoon at the Dartington College of Arts with Helen Glatz and at the Royal College of Music. She played in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and became a member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. Towards the end of the 1960s, she lived in New York City for a year, during which time she became involved in music projects outside classical music.

Cooper was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the late 1970s, but did not disclose it to the musical community until the late 1990s when her illness prevented her from performing live. In September 2013, Cooper died from the illness at the age of 62.

Lindsay Cooper Net Worth

Lindsay Cooper is one of the richest Composer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lindsay Cooper 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians. She collaborated with a number of musicians, including Chris Cutler and Sally Potter, and co-founded the Feminist Improvising Group. She wrote scores for film and TV and a song cycle Oh Moscow which was performed live around the world in 1987. She also recorded a number of solo albums, including Rags (1980), The Gold Diggers (1983), and Music For Other Occasions (1986).

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During the 1980s, she toured the United States with David Thomas and played in various bands in England led by jazz composer Mike Westbrook. In 1983 Cooper collaborated with Chris Cutler and formed the English avant-rock group News from Babel, composing all the music for their two albums, Work Resumed on the Tower (1984) and Letters Home (1986).

Facts & Trivia

Linus Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Lindsay Cooper celebrates birthday on March 3 of every year.

Cooper’s best known work is her 1987 song-cycle Oh Moscow. It was another collaboration with Sally Potter, with Cooper composing the music and Potter the song texts. It premiered at the Zurich Jazz Festival that year and was subsequently performed in Europe, North America and Moscow. The songs dealt with issues facing a divided Europe during the Cold War. Ironically, the Berlin Wall came down 39 days after the work was first performed. Oh Moscow was recorded in October 1989 with Potter, Phil Minton, Hugh Hopper, Marilyn Mazur, Alfred Harth and Elvira Plenar at the 7th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada, and released on a CD in 1991.