British luthiers by granting prizes for outstanding instruments. Cobbett started a periodical on Chamber music, called the Chamber Music Supplement. He established a free library of chamber music and started chamber music concert series in working-class neighborhoods of British cities. Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music was the result of four years of labor. In addition to Cobbett's own extensive contributions, the two-volume survey includes articles by leading musicians and musicologists of the time, including Vincent d'Indy, Donald Tovey, Ralph Vaughan Williams and others. Cobbett wrote of his own devotion to chamber music that "there opened out before me an enchanted world... I became a humble devotee of this infinitely beautiful art, and so began for me the chamber music life." Cobbett died in London, England in 1937. His legacy is continued by the Cobbett Association, an organization devoted to rediscovering forgotten works of chamber music. See also Walter Willson Cobbett Medal References External links Four Cobbett Prizes awarded to Frank Bridge (archive copy) The Cobbett Phantasy Prize 1905 The Cobbett Phantasy Prize 1907 Winners of the Cobbett Medal English writers about music 1847 births 1937 deaths Deaths from influenza Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People from Blackheath, London