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Clarke was born in Harrow, England, to Joseph Thacher Clarke and Agnes Paulina Marie Amalie Helferich, and studied at London's Royal College of Music.
Clarke later sold the Stradivarius she had been bequeathed, and established the May Muklé prize at the Royal Academy, named after the cellist with whom she frequently toured.
The Rebecca Clarke Society was established in September 2000 to promote performance, scholarship, and awareness of the works of Rebecca Clarke, following an event at Brandeis University celebrating her work.
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 Rebecca Clarke -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Clarke was born in (A cultivator that pulverizes or smoothes the soil) Harrow, (A division of the United Kingdom) England, to Joseph Thacher Clarke and Agnes Paulina Marie Amalie Helferich, and studied at London's (Click link for more info and facts about Royal College of Music) Royal College of Music.
By this point Clarke was living in the United States with her brothers, and extremely unhappy to see them turning out as badly as their father, though this period of unhappiness, like her early adulthood, proved a fertile one nonetheless.
Clarke's unpublished (An essay on a scientific or scholarly topic) memoir, I Had a Father Too (or the Mustard Spoon), which she began writing after Friskin's 1967 death, was completed in 1973.
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 Encyclopedia article on Rebecca Clarke [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Rebecca Clarke (Friskin) (August 27, 1886–October 13, 1979) was an English classical composer and violist who is most famous for her chamber music featuring the viola.
Clarke was born in Harrow, England, and studied at London's Royal College of Music.
Clarke suffered from dysthymia, a low-grade, long-term form of depression, which often prevented her from writing; the lack of encouragement—sometimes outright discouragement—she received for her work also stayed her pen, but perhaps her greatest barrier to composition was her own idea of her proper role.
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 Welcome to the Four Seasons Orchestra
Rebecca Clarke: Lullaby, 1909 and Lullaby on An Ancient Irish Tune, 1913
Rebecca Clarke: Passacaglia on an Old English Tune, and Untitled Movement
Rebecca Clarke: Three Pieces (Prelude, Allegro, and Pastorale (clarinet and viola)
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