Unpublished writings are held by the Clarke estate (unless otherwise noted) which may also contain further materials. The Estate is managed by Christopher Johnson, of Brooklyn, New York. Clarke spoke about chamber music at the Chautauqua Institution most summers from 1946 to 1956. She also occasionally lectured elsewhere during these years, including on WQXR radio (New York City). Diaries. 1919-1933 (unpublished)”The History of the Viola in Quartet Writing.” Music and Letters IV (1923): 6-17. Reprinted in A Rebecca Clarke Reader, 105-119.”The Beethoven Quartets as a Player Sees Them.” Music and Letters VIII (1927): 178-190. Reprinted in A Rebecca Clarke Reader, 120-134.

“Bloch, Ernest.” Cobbett’s Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, I, edited by W. W. Cobbett, 129-34. London, Oxford University Press, 1929, 2/1963. Reprinted in A Rebecca Clarke Reader, 140-151.

“Viola.” Cobbett’s Cyclopedic Survey, II, 536-8. Reprinted in A Rebecca Clarke Reader, 135-139.

“La Semaine Anglaise at the Paris Colonial Exhibition.” The B.M.S. [British Music Society] Bulletin, New Series 1 (Autumn, 1931), 7-11. Reprinted in A Rebecca Clarke Reader, 152-156.

Letters between Clarke and James Friskin, 1944.

Letters to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Washington D.C. Library of Congress, Performing Arts Division, The Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection. 12.18.17-2.5.51.

The Woman Composer . Then and Now,. ca. 1948. Typescript of essay included in Morpheus for viola and piano / Rebecca Clarke. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

“Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2.” Unpublished, for Chautauqua Institute?

“Schubert and His Quartets.” Unpublished, for Chautauqua Institute?

“Mozart and His Quartets.” Unpublished, for Chautauqua Institute?

“Fiddling with the Stars.” Unpublished, presented at Chautauqua Institute, July 13, 1956.

“RVW: A Remembrance.” 1958, for radio broadcast (unpublished, copy in the British Library, London, as well as in the Clarke estate).

“I had a Father Too (Or the Mustard Spoon).” 1969-73, memoir primarily concerning Clarke’s youth up to 1910 (unpublished).

Program Note on the Viola Sonata, 1977. Reprinted in A Rebecca Clarke Reader, 225-226.

Recordings by Clarke as a Violist

Other recordings doubtless are in existence, since in her diary Clarke notes making recordings with other musicians and ensembles.
Trio by Mozart, K. 494 (Kegelstatt) with Kathleen Long, piano, and Frederick Thurston, clarinet. London, c. 1930. Menuetto movement re-released on The Recorded Viola CD set, Pearl GEMM CDS 9148, 1995.

Sextet by Frank Bridge, at the memorial concert for Bridge at the Coolidge Auditorium, Washington D.C., March 11, 1941. Tape at Library of Congress.

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