Martin du Pré Cooper CBE (17 January 1910 – 15 March 1986) was an English musicologist and author.
Fluent in half-a-dozen languages, he taught modern languages at Stow College and Winchester College[2] while simultaneously establishing himself as a music critic, first at the London Mercury (1935–9), then (interrupted by the war) the Daily Herald (1946–50) and The Spectator (1947–54).
He remained at the Telegraph until his retirement in 1976 and was succeeded by Peter Stadlen.
He was a lifelong enthusiast of Gluck and a champion of the often vilified Meyerbeer, Gounod and Massenet.
[5] But his interests were wide-ranging, encompassing German and Russian music, as well as a broader, cosmopolitan perspective on philosophy, literature and cultural and political history than most of his English contemporaries.