A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cocks and Co., Robert

by William H. Husk

COCKS & CO., Robert, one of the principal London music-publishing firms. The business was established in 1827 by the present senior partner, Robert Cocks, and was carried on at No. 20 Princes Street, Hanover Square, for about 21 years, when it was removed to No. 6 New Burlington Street, where it is still conducted. In 1868 Robert Cocks took into partnership with him his two sons, Arthur Lincoln Cocks and Stroud Lincoln Cocks. The present firm consists of Robert and Stroud Lincoln Cocks. During the half century of its existence upwards of 16,000 publications have issued from the house, including many works of solid and permanent worth, such as Czerny's Schools of Practical Composition and of the Pianoforte; Spohr's and Campagnoli's Violin Schools; Albrechtsberger's and Cherubini's Treatises on Counterpoint; Bertini's Method; J. S. Bach's Pianoforte Works, etc., etc. A periodical, the Monthly Miscellany, contains original notices of Beethoven by Czerny.

[ W. H. H. ]