CLARKE, Rebecca
(1886–1979)> VIOLINIST · VIOLIST · COMPOSER
CLARKE, Rebecca (Friskin) (pseud. Anthony Trent) English violinist, violist and composer. Harrow, August 27, 1886; October 13, 1979. She came from a musical background and started to play the violin at the age of eight. At the Royal Academy of Music she studied the violin under Hans Wessely and then attended the Royal College of Music where she studied composition under Sir Charles Stanford, being his only female student and the viola under Lionel Tertis. She took up the viola professionally…