Born in England, the viola player and composer Rebecca Clarke found herself in America in 1940, where she settled and married. A pupil of Stanford, she more or less abandoned her work as a composer, having written relatively little.

Viola Music

Rebecca Clarke’s compositions generally involve the viola in some way or other. Her Viola Sonata, runner-up to Ernest Bloch in the competition organised by Mrs Coolidge, has won a firm place in modern viola repertoire, in spite of earlier neglect.