Clarke, Jeremiah (c. 1674–1707)

English composer. He was organist at St Paul's Cathedral in London, and composed The Prince of Denmark's March, a harpsichord piece that was arranged by Henry Wood as a ‘Trumpet Voluntary’ and wrongly attributed to Purcell.

Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at the Chapel Royal, organist at Winchester College 1692–95, and in 1699 was appointed organist at St Paul's. He was sworn Gentleman-extraordinary of the Chapel Royal in 1700 and organist in 1704. He committed suicide, supposedly after an unhappy love affair.

Works Stage operas The Island Princess (with D Purcell and Leveridge; 1699), The World in the Moon (Settle, with D Purcell; 1697); incidental music for Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Sedley's Antony and Cleopatra, and other plays.

Harpsichord harpsichord music, including The Prince of Denmark's March (‘Trumpet Voluntary’).

Other anthems; odes on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, in praise of Barbadoes, and O Harmony; setting of Dryden's Alexander's Feast (1697).