Midsummer Moon for Violin and Piano (1924)

Clarke composed this work in 1924, and it was published in 1926.¹
Clarke dedicated this piece to Hungarian violinist Adila Fachiri.² Fachiri performed this work’s premiere on May 12, 1924, in London, with pianist Bertram Harrison.³
- Clarke and Fachiri also appeared together in a recital at Wigmore Hall on Oct. 21, 1925.⁴
- Fachiri and her sister Jelly d’Aranyi were the people who alleged that she discovered the existence of Schumann’s Violin Sonata in a séance (the spirits of Schumann and her uncle, Joseph Joachim, told her about it).
Fun fact: the first edition cover features a beautiful Art Nouveau illustration.

Liane Curtis, “Clarke [Friskin], Rebecca,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed May 18, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044728.
Rebecca Clarke, Midsummer Moon for Violin and Piano (London: Oxford University Press, 1926), 1.
“Rebecca Clarke: List of Works,” The Rebecca Clarke Society, accessed May 18, 2022, https://www.rebeccaclarke.org/worksi/.
Robert Sherman, “Rebecca Clarke Remembers Myra Hess,” in A Rebecca Clarke Reader, ed. Liane Curtis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 166.

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