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{{ref|grove}}; she has also been described as the most distinguished British female composer of her generation. {{ref|norton}}

References

• {{note|grove}}Liane Curtis, "Rebecca Clarke". Grove Music Online (subscription access).
• {{note|woolf}}Liane Curtis, "When Virginia Woolf met Rebecca Clarke". Newsletter of the Rebecca Clarke society, Fall 2003
• {{note|id}}Liane Curtis, "A Case of Identity". Musical Times, May 1996.
• {{note|sonata}}Ann M. Woodward, program notes to Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano, J. & W. Chester, Ltd., 1985.
• {{note|sonata2}}Martha Furman Schleifer, program notes to Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano, Hildegard Publishing Company, 2000.
• {{note|pass}}Liane Curtis, program notes to "Passacaglia on an Old English Tune", Hildegard Publishing Company, 1999.
• {{note|mail}}Liane Curtis, personal correspondence, May 2005.
• {{note|oxford}}Michael Ponder, "Clarke, Rebecca Helferich (1886-1979)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (subscription access)
• {{note|norton}}Stephen Banfield, "Clarke, Rebecca (Thacher)", The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, W.W. Norton and Co., 1995
• {{note|cd}}Michael Ponder, liner notes to album Rebecca Clarke: Midsummer Moon, 2000 Dutton Laboratories