Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1673 – 1 December 1707)^[1] was an English baroque composer and organist.

Thought to have been born in London around 1674, Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at St Paul's Cathedral. He later became organist at the Chapel Royal. After his death, he was succeeded in that post by William Croft.

Clarke is best remembered for a popular keyboard piece: the Prince of Denmark's March, which is commonly called the Trumpet Voluntary, written circa. 1700.^[2] From c. 1878 until the 1940s the work was attributed to Henry Purcell, and was published as Trumpet Voluntary by Henry Purcell in William Sparkes's Short Pieces for the Organ, Book VII, No. 1 (London, Ashdown and Parry). This version came to the attention of Sir Henry J. Wood, who made two orchestral transcriptions of it, both of which were recorded.^[3] The recordings further cemented the erroneous notion that the original piece was by Purcell. Clarke's piece is a popular choice for wedding music, and has featured in royal weddings.^[4]^[5]

The famous Trumpet Tune in D (also incorrectly attributed to Purcell), was taken from the semi-opera The Island Princess which was a joint musical production of Clarke and Daniel Purcell (Henry Purcell's younger brother)—probably leading to the confusion.^[6]^[7]

1 Clarke's suicide
2 Works
3 Other Jeremiah Clarkes
4 References
5 External links

Clarke's suicide [link]

"A violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own" caused him to commit suicide. Before shooting himself, he considered hanging and drowning as options, so to decide his fate, he tossed a coin—however the coin landed in the mud on its side. Instead of consoling himself, he chose the third method of death, and performed the deed in the cathedral churchyard."^[8] Suicides were not generally granted burial in consecrated ground, but an exception was made for Clarke, who was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral^[9] (though other sources state he was buried in the unconsecrated section of the cathedral churchyard^[10]).

Works [link]

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Clarke's works include:

Harpsichord and Organ Music.
Masses and other religious music (including 20 anthems and several odes).
Prince of Denmark's March, popularly known as "Trumpet Voluntary". (From the Suite in D Major.)
Trumpet Tune in D, from The Island Princess.
King William's March.

Other Jeremiah Clarkes [link]

There were two other, lesser known British organists of the same name, who lived later but whose dates of birth are uncertain. One published four volumes of music between 1760 and 1791, and the other was the organist of Worcester Cathedral from 1806–7.^[11]

References [link]

^ Gascoigne, Bamber (1994) Encyclopedia of Britain p.653. Macmillan, 1994
^ Gerald Norris (1981) A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland p.61. David & Charles, 1981
^ Grove V, Vol. VIII, "Trumpet Voluntary"
^ Dan Fox (2007) World's Greatest Wedding Music: 50 of the Most Requested Wedding Pieces p.7. Alfred Music Publishing, 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2011
^ Lefevre, Holly (2010) The Everything Wedding Checklist Book: All You Need to Remember for a Day You'll Never Forget p.127. Adams Media, 2010
^ Bette Matthews (2004) Wedding for All Seasons p.119. Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2004
^ Music & letters, Volumes 40–41 p.347. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 4 January 2011
^ Piggott, Solomon (1824). "Remarkable Modes of Suicide". Suicide and its antidotes: a series of anecdotes and actual narratives, with suggestions on mental distress. J. Robins and Co.. p. 175. https://books.google.com/books?id=1JcDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
^ Jeremiah Clarke: Classical.com
^ Jeremiah Clarke (1674–1707) – Find A Grave Memorial
^ Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Fifth ed. Vol. II, p. 333. St. Martin's Press, 1973.

External links [link]

Free scores by Jeremiah Clarke in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
Free scores by Jeremiah Clarke in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
Free scores by Jeremiah Clarke at the International Music Score Library Project

Cultural offices
Preceded by Isaac Blackwell	Organist of St Paul's Cathedral 1699–1707	Succeeded by Richard Brind
Preceded by John Blow	Almoner and Master of the Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral 1693–1707	Succeeded by Charles King
Preceded by Francis Pigott	Joint First Organist of the Chapel Royal with William Croft 1704–1707	Succeeded by William Croft

Persondata
Name	Clarke, Jeremiah
Alternative names
Short description	English baroque composer and organist
Date of birth	c. 1674
Place of birth	London
Date of death	1 December 1707
Place of death	London

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Jeremiah

Jeremiah (/dʒɛrᵻˈmaɪ.ə/;Hebrew: יִרְמְיָהוּ, Modern: Yirmeyahu [jiʁmeˈjahu], Tiberian: Yirmĭyāhū; Greek: Ἰερεμίας; Arabic: إرميا‎ Irmiyā) meaning "Yah Exalts", also called the "Weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament). Jeremiah is traditionally credited with authoring the Book of Jeremiah, 1 Kings, 2 Kings and the Book of Lamentations, with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple.

Judaism considers the Book of Jeremiah part of its canon, and regards Jeremiah as the second of the major prophets. Christianity also regards Jeremiah as a prophet and he is quoted in the New Testament.Islam too considers Jeremiah a prophet, and he is listed as a major prophet in Ibn Kathir's Qisas Al-Anbiya (Stories of the Prophets).

About a year after King Josiah of Judah had turned the nation toward repentance from the widespread idolatrous practices of his father and grandfather, Jeremiah's sole purpose was to reveal the sins of the people and explain the reason for the impending disaster (destruction by the Babylonian army and captivity), "And when your people say, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'" God's personal message to Jeremiah, "Attack you they will, overcome you they can't," was fulfilled many times in the Biblical narrative: Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah's officials, and opposed by a false prophet. When Nebuchadnezzar seized Jerusalem in 586 BC, he ordered that Jeremiah be freed from prison and treated well.

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Jeremiah (I)

R. Jeremiah (Hebrew: רבי ירמיה) was a Tanna sage of the last generation and an Amora sage of the first generation, active in the Land of Israel during the transition period between the Tannaic and Amora sages eras. In Tractate Sukkah it is storied that that one of his pupils was a sage called Hezekiah, R. Rabbi Yehudah be-Rabbi Kalonymus mi-Speyer, the author of Sefer Yiḥusei Tanna'im ve-Amora'im, raises the question whether it was Hezekiah the son of R. Hiyya or whether it was Hezekiah the son of the daughter of Rab.

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Jeremiah (III)

R. Yirmeyah (or R. Jeremiah (iii) or Jeremiah ben Abba;Hebrew: רבי ירמיה‎, read as Rabbi Yirmeyah) was a prominent Jewish Amora sage of the Land of Israel, of the fourth generation of the Amora era (4th century). He was born in Babylon and made Aliyah to the Land of Israel while he was still young. In The Land of Israel he learned under R. Yochanan bar Nafcha's disciples, mainly under Rav Zeira. He stood out with his many questions, many of which that were left unanswered. In the Talmud it is storied that he was once ejected from a Beth Midrash because of his questions concerning border line cases that required accuracy on determining the exact definition of the border line. His exceptional questions gained publicity, and some use the phrase a Jeremiah question to refer to rare or out of the ordinary questions. After he was taken out of the Beth Midrash, the prominent sages of the generation sent him Halakhahic questions, and his answers made them decide to return him back to the Beth Midrash. Yirmeyah was known for his love of the Land of Israel, and used to denounce the Babylonians. His Beth Midrash was located in Tiberias.