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COWELL, EDWARD BYLES

Bibliography:

George Cowell, Life and Letters of Edward Byles Cowell, London, 1904 (includes the reproduction of a portrait in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

F. W. Thomas, “Cowell,” in Dictionary of (Brtish) National Biography, Supplement 1901-1911, London, 1912, repr. 1920, I, pp. 427-30.

E. B. Cowell: “The Mesnavi of Jelaleddin Rumi,” The Gentleman’s Magazine, N.S. 30, 1848, pp. 39-46, 148-52.

Idem, “Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions and Persian Ballads,” Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review 53, 1850, pp. 38-56.

Idem, “Gyges’ Ring in Plato and Nizami,” J(R)ASB 3, no. 2, 1861, pp. 151-57.

E. B. Cowell and E. H. Palmer, “Two Kasídahs of the Persian Poet Anwarí,” The Journal of Philology 4, no. 7, 1872, pp. 1-47.

Cowell’s translations from Hafez appeared in the following periodicals: (1) Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, 3rd Series, vols. I (1843), pp. 8, 250, 642; II (1844), pp. 19, 277, 471, 572; III (1844), pp. 354, 604;

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Henry Cowell was born 11 March 1897 in Menlo Park, California, to a family of anarchist bohemian writers. After his parents divorced in 1903, Henry lived with his mother. Their financial difficulties led them to leave California for New York in 1906. Throughout his childhood, Cowell’s schooling was disrupted by poor health and by the odd jobs he did to supplement the household income. Very early, he showed exceptional musical talent, learning violin from the age of four. At the age of nine, he began learning piano, which would become his principal means of expression. Returning to California in 1910, he encountered the music of Japan and China in the immigrant neighborhoods of San Francisco.

In 1914, he was introduced to Charles Seeger, who admitted him to the department of music at the University of California, Berkeley, and with whom Cowell studied composition. In addition, he studied counterpoint with Wallace Sabin and Edward Stricklen (harmony). After his mother’s death, in 1916, he studied briefly at the Institute of Musical Art in New York. He returned to California the fo

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Simon Cowell

English reality television judge, television producer and music executive (born 1959)

This article is about the music executive and television presenter. For the conservationist and author, see Simon Cowell (conservationist).

Simon Phillip Cowell (; born 7 October 1959) is an English television personality, entrepreneur, and record executive. He has judged on the British television talent competition shows Pop Idol (2001–2003), The X Factor UK (2004–2010, 2014–2018), and Britain's Got Talent (2007–present), as well as the American television talent competition shows American Idol (2002–2010), The X Factor US (2011–2013), and America's Got Talent (2016–present). Cowell founded the British entertainment company Syco in 2005, as well as its defunct predecessor, Syco Music (also known as S Records) in 2002.

After some success in the 1980s and 1990s as a record producer, talent agent and consultant in the UK music industry, Cowell came to public prominence in 2001 as a judge on Pop Idol, a talent television show which he and its creator Simon Fuller