Walter Willson Cobbett was a British businessman and amateur violinist, and editor/author of "Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music". He also endowed the Cobbett Medal for services to Chamber Music. Walter Cobbett was born in 1847 in Blackheath, England. He became an active supporter of music, and commissioned numerous works of chamber music from emerging and leading British composers of his time, including chamber works by Benjamin Britten, Frank Bridge, … Wikipedia
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