Rebecca Clarke

Rebecca Helferich Clarke (Friskin) (August 27, 1886–October 13, 1979) was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She is considered one of the most important British composers in the interwar period between World War I and World War II; she has also been described as the most distinguished British female composer of her generation.

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Though she wrote little, due in part to her ideas about the role of a female composer, her work was recognized for its compositional skill. Most of Clarke's works have yet to be published (or have only recently been published), and her work was largely forgotten after she stopped composing. Scholarship and interest in her work revived when she reached her ninetieth birthday in 1976.

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Rebecca Clarke related Images and Photos (experimental)

Arthur C. Clarke	Clarke Gable & Vivien Leigh, Gone With The Wind Cutout	"Clarke Gable & Vivien Leigh from ""Gone With The Wind"" Cutout"	Samuel Clarke Engraved by Jacobus Houbraken C.1737-48
Bobby Orr & Bobby Clarke 2010 Winter Classic	Bobby Orr & Bobby Clarke 2010 Winter Classic	Dead Space 2 Isaac Clarke Plasma Cutter Full Size Replica	Frankenstein Dwight Frye John Boles Mae Clarke Boris Karloff Edward Van Sloan 1931