Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Barry Cooper (born 1949) is an English musicologist, composer, organist and author, a Beethoven scholar, and is editor of the Beethoven Compendium. Born in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, Cooper studied piano and composition in his childhood, leading to scholarships to the Gordonstoun School and later at University College, Oxford, studying organ with John Webster and earning an MA in 1973 and a DPhil in 1974. His musical compositions include an oratorio, The Ascension. But Cooper is best known for his books on Beethoven (including the 'Beethoven Compendium'), as well as a completion and realization of Beethoven's fragmentary Symphony No. 10. Having extensively studied Beethoven's sketchbooks and written a book about them, Beethoven and the Creative Process, Cooper felt confident enough to identify the sketches for the individual movements of the Symphony andput together those for the first movement into a musically satisfactory whole.