The British Musical Biography

[E] Cope, Samuel, bandmaster, son of a band-
master in the West of England. As a boy he
sang in a Church choir, and played in a drum
and fife band, afterwards taking to the cornet,
on which he became a proficient performer.
After holding various appointments he was.
offered, and accepted, in 1888, the conduc-
torship of the Queen's Park (West London)
Military Band, a position he still holds. He
founded the magazine. The British Bandsman
(the title has since been changed to The
Orchestral Times and British Musician)^
which he edited for some years. He was also
editor of the Champion Journal, the pioneer
of popular band jovirnal music, founded at.
Hull, by the late Richard Smith, in 1853 ;
and has composed a large number of xjieces,,
of which only a few have been published.

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