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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.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Clarke_(composer)
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Further Reading: Clarke, Rebecca
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John York introduces Rebecca Clarke's Rhapsody for Piano & Cello
12th Jul 2024
Presto Music are excited to announce that, in collaboration with Nimbus Music Publishing, we now offer a wide selection of sheet music by Rebecca Clarke. Find out more.
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Strings
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Piano & Keyboard
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Vocal & Choral
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Chamber Music
All Works: Clarke, Rebecca
- 'He Hath Filled The Hungry' (1)
- A Dream (1)
- A Lover's Dirge (3)
- A Psalm of David (1)
- As I was goin' to Ballynure (2)
- Ave Maria (2)
- Binnorie (1)
- Chinese Puzzle for Viola & Piano (1)
- Chinese Puzzle for Violin & Piano (1)
- Chorus from Shelley's 'Hellas' (2)
- Come, O come, my life's delight (2)
- Cortege for Piano solo (1)
- Cradle Song (2)
- Down by the Salley Gardens (3)
- Dumka for Violin, Viola & Piano (2)
- Eight O'Clock (1)
- Epilogue for Cello & Piano (1)
- God made a tree (1)
- Greeting (1)
- He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High (2)
- I know my love (2)
- I know where I'm goin' (2)
- I'll Bid My Heart Be Still (2)
- Infant Joy (1)
- It was a Lover and his Lass (1)
- June Twilight (1)
- Lethe (1)
- Lullaby (1909) (1)
- Lullaby (1913) - an arrangement of an ancient Irish tune (1)
- Lullaby and Grotesque (1916) (1)
- Lullaby for Violin & Piano (1)
- Midsummer Moon for Violin & Piano (1)
- Morpheus (2)
- Music, when soft voices die (2)
- My spirit like a charmed bark doth float (2)
- Now fie on love (2)
- Passacaglia on an old English Tune for Cello & Piano (1)
- Passacaglia on an Old English Tune for viola and piano (5)
- Phillis on the New Made Hay (1)
- Philomela (2)
- Piano Trio (1)
- Prelude, Allegro & Pastorale for Clarinet & Viola (2)
- Rhapsody for Cello & Piano (2)
- Shy One (1)
- Sonata for Cello (or Viola) and Piano (1)
- The Aspidistra (2)
- The Cherry-Blossom Wand (2)
- The Cloths of Heaven (1)
- The Donkey (1)
- The Seal Man (1)
- The Tailor and his Mouse (1)
- The Tiger (1)
- Theme and Variations for Piano (1)
- There is no rose (2)
- Two Movements for String Quartet (2)
- Untitled Piece for Viola and Piano (1)
- Viola Sonata (2)
- Weep you no more, sad fountains (3)
- When cats run home and light is come (2)
