Louis Cohen (conductor)

Louis Cohen (17 September 1894[1] – 25 November 1956) was an English violinist and conductor.

[4] After the outbreak of World War II, Cohen presented free concerts for members of the armed forces at St George's Hall in Liverpool.

[5] Soloists with whom he worked in this period included Moura Lympany, Clifford Curzon and Eileen Joyce.

He programmed some English works including Elgar's Enigma Variations which were played not only in the three main cities of Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel-Aviv, but in some of the agricultural settlements.

[7] Later programmes included Elgar's Serenade for strings, Bax's Tintagel and Frederick Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.