music history because she was born in Harrow, England.
and became an American citizen though marriage, she does not usually appear in books about U.S. Although Clarke lived much of her life in the U.S. When young her father ejected her from home without financial support for criticizing his continuous extra-marital affairs, she managed to eke out a living. Despite being a successful public performer and composer, she suffered from life-long depression, which resulted in erratic periods of reduced creativity. Morpheus was published under the pseudonym Trent Rebecca signed the performance programs at Carnegie Hall with the name Anthony Trent after the concert.īecause of her father’s abusive beatings, Clarke suffered from life-long depression. Clarke, a world-renowned virtuoso viola player, also published under the pseudonym Anthony Trent due to male prejudice against female composers and performers. An impressionistic work influenced by Claude Debussy and Ralph Vaughn Williams under whom she studied voice, Morpheus remains an important chamber work and its selection for this concert of difficult works to play added to the excitement of expanded horizons.
Rebecca Clarke’s Morpheus (1917) for piano and viola may not be familiar to many concert attendees today, yet during Clarke’s lifetime, it was a well-known concert piece performed at Carnegie Hall in 1918.
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