Frank Cooper (musicologist)

Frank Cooper
Born	1938 Atlanta, Georgia
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Florida State University
Occupation	Professor of Music

Frank Cooper (born 1938, Atlanta, Georgia) is currently Research Professor Emeritus, Musicology, at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida), since retiring from his professorship in 2013, and is internationally known as the founder of the Festival of Neglected Romantic Music.

He studied at Florida State University with John Boda, Edward Kilenyi and Ernst von Dohnányi. From 1963 to 1977 he was a member of the faculty at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

In 1968 he founded the Festival of Neglected Romantic Music, which he directed until 1977. The Festival almost immediately attracted the attention of Harold C. Schonberg, music critic of the New York Times, who ultimately credited Cooper with personally jump-starting international interest in the Romantic Revival in music. Many seminal works of the Romantic era that had not been heard since the 19th century received their first performances in decades at the Festival. Schonberg and other critics commented on the high professional level of the presentations, and certain specific performers became associated with the Festival.

After serving as executive director of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Arts Council, Cooper moved to Miami, Florida where he directed the Dade County Council of Arts and Sciences before returning to teaching, first at the New World School of the Arts, then at the University of Miami. He 1994 he founded the Coral Gables Mainly Mozart Festival, a chamber music series held each summer, for which he was artistic director until 2012.

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