COMPOSER

Rebecca Clarke

1886 - 1979

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Rebecca Helferich Clarke (27 August 1886 – 13 October 1979) was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral players in London. Rebecca Clarke had a German father and an American mother, and spent substantial periods of her life in the United States, where she permanently settled after World War II. She was born in Harrow and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rebecca Clarke has received more than 11,982 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Rebecca Clarke is the 1,009th most popular composer (down from 823rd in 2019), the 2,831st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,265th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Composer.

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  • 12k

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  • 50.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Rebecca Clarke ranks 1,009 out of 1,451. Before her are August Wilhelm Ambros, Richard Heuberger, Hamilton Harty, Édouard Colonne, Alessandro Grandi, and Gottfried August Homilius. After her are Percy Faith, Balys Dvarionas, Paul Taffanel, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Emil von Sauer, and Victor Massé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Rebecca Clarke ranks 189. Before her are George Cœdès, Chester Conklin, G. I. Taylor, Muthulakshmi Reddy, August Rei, and Aleksei Kruchyonykh. After her are Lupu Pick, Kid Ory, Jenő Károly, Ed Wynn, Karl Struss, and Boris Eikhenbaum. Among people deceased in 1979, Rebecca Clarke ranks 159. Before her are Joan Blondell, Jack Haley, Lothar Wolleh, Antonina Makarova, Alfred Deller, and Mahmoud Taleghani. After her are Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, František Kriegel, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Antonio María Barbieri, Marcel Jouhandeau, and Grant Green.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rebecca Clarke ranks 2,831 out of 8,785. Before her are Joe Fry (1915), Edmund Goulding (1891), Ian Hart (1964), Tommy Flanagan (1965), Ernest Starling (1866), and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850). After her are Mary Dyer (1611), Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Henry Salt (1780), Nevil Shute (1899), and Edmund Campion (1540).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Rebecca Clarke ranks 38. Before her are Charles Burney (1726), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Tavener (1944), Matthew Locke (1621), John Rutter (1945), and Hamilton Harty (1879). After her are Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Richard Addinsell (1904), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), Christopher Hogwood (1941), Hubert Parry (1848), and Patrick Doyle (1953).

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