Hugh Archibald Clarke

Hugh Archibald Clarke ( born August 18, 1839 in or near Toronto, Ontario, † December 16, 1927 in Philadelphia ) was a Canadian composer.

Clarke was from 1859 organist in Philadelphia in 1875, he was. Was the first in the United States with John Knowles Paine (Harvard ), Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught harmony and counterpoint Among his pupils were the composer William Wallace Gilchrist, musicologist Otto Albrecht and his own daughter, the composer and poet Helen Clarke.

For his main work, the incidental music to the Arachnern of Aristophanes, he was awarded an honorary doctorate. In addition to his compositions, he wrote a number of musicological writings.

Works

• The Music of the Spheres, cantata, 1880
• Acharnians, music for the play by Aristophanes, 1886
• Jerusalem, oratorio, 1890