Rebecca Clarke
Born: 27th August 1886, Harrow, England
Died: 13th October 1979, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: English
Rebecca Helferich Clarke was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral players in London.
Rebecca Clarke had a German mother and an American father, and spent substantial periods of her life in the United States, where she permanently settled after World War II. She was born in Harrow and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London. Stranded in the United States at the outbreak of World War II, she married composer and pianist James Friskin in 1944. Clarke died at her home in New York at the age of 93.
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Kitty Whately on Rebecca Clarke
5th Nov 2025
In advance of the release of Clarke's complete songs on Signum this Friday, the British mezzo discusses her ongoing advocacy for women composers, with plans including a focus-day on Clarke at Wigmore Hall this weekend and a major new song competition early next year.
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- A Dream (7)
- A Psalm of David (1)
- Ave Maria (9)
- Cello Sonata (3)
- Cherry Blossom Wand (arr. for voice and guitar by Gus McQuade) (1)
- Chinese Puzzle for Viola & Piano (3)
- Chinese Puzzle for Violin & Piano (6)
- Combined Carols (1)
- Come, O come, my life's delight (1)
- Cortege for Piano solo (3)
- Cradle Song (4)
- Daybreak (1)
- Down by the Salley Gardens (8)
- Dumka for Violin, Viola & Piano (5)
- Eight O'Clock (4)
- Epilogue for Cello & Piano (5)
- God made a tree (2)
- Greeting (2)
- He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High (1)
- Hymn to Pan (2)
- I'll Bid My Heart Be Still (13)
- Infant Joy (6)
- Irish Country Songs (3) (6)
- Irish Melody (Emer's Farewell to Cucullain 'Londonderry Air') (1)
- It was a Lover and his Lass (1)
- June Twilight (9)
- Lethe (4)
- Lullaby (1909) (4)
- Lullaby (1913) - an arrangement of an ancient Irish tune (5)
- Lullaby and Grotesque (1916) (6)
- Lullaby for viola (or violin) & cello (1)
- Lullaby for Viola & Piano (4)
- Lullaby for Violin & Piano (4)
- Lullaby No. 1 (1)
- Midsummer Moon for viola & piano (2)
- Midsummer Moon for Violin & Piano (4)
- Morpheus (14)
- Nacht für Nacht (1)
- Passacaglia on an old English Tune for Cello & Piano (4)
- Passacaglia on an Old English Tune for viola and piano (8)
- Phillis on the New Made Hay (1)
- Piano Trio (13)
- Pieces (2) for Violin & Piano (1)
- Poem for String Quartet (3)
- Prelude, Allegro & Pastorale for Clarinet & Viola (5)
- Rhapsody for Cello & Piano (4)
- Shy One (5)
- Sleep (2)
- Sonata for Cello (or Viola) and Piano (1)
- Spirits (1)
- String Quartet movement Adagio (1)
- String Quartet movement Comodo e amabile (1)
- Suite for Two Violins and Piano (1)
- Tears (2)
- The Aspidistra (5)
- The Cherry-Blossom Wand (3)
- The Cloths of Heaven (7)
- The Donkey (2)
- The Seal Man (13)
- The Tailor and his Mouse (1)
- The Tiger (2)
- There is no rose (1)
- Tiger, Tiger (4)
- Two Pieces for Viola & Cello (4)
- Untitled Piece for Viola and Piano (3)
- Viola Sonata (53)
- Weep you no more, sad fountains (1)
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Special offer. Her Voice: Piano Trios by Amy Beach, Louise Farrenc and Rebecca Clarke | Piano Trios
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The Crown of Life | Leighton, Clarke, Holst, Darke
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