Violist Rebecca Clarke was one of the most talented British composers of the early twentieth century. Although she is best known for her viola sonata, she also wrote a number of other wonderful works. These often blend a late Romantic
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Born within a year of one another, female composers Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) and Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) gained little recognition during their own lifetimes and it has only been in recent years that their music has become better known, and deservedly
“We were all of us whipped, sometimes really painfully,” Rebecca Clarke once wrote. The sentence is a tragic summation of her childhood. Despite the abuse she and her siblings endured at the hands of her father, Rebecca Clarke emerged into


