Biography:Bartlett Cooke

Bartlett Cooke was a late 18th, early 19th century musician, music seller and publisher in Dublin. Concurrently, he was an oboeist with theater orchestras of Smock Alley and Crow Street the city, and ran music shops at 45 Dame Street and on Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) in the late 18th centry. Cook collaborated with professional dancing masters who are named in his publications, such 'Mr. Fontaine’ and 'Tracy', and co-founded the Irish Musical Fund (1787). He was the father of Thomas Simpson Cooke (1782-1848), a violinist and singer who composed for the theater in Ireland and later in England.