Claire van Kampen, a composer and playwright who was married to Wolf Corridor actor Mark Rylance, has died. She was 71 years outdated.
Van Kampen died on Saturday, January 18, which was Rylance’s sixty fifth birthday, Individuals studies.
“Claire Louise van Kampen, Girl Rylance, has died this morning, Saturday the 18th of January at 11:47, within the historic city of Kassel, Germany, surrounded by her household,” her household stated in a press release, per the journal.
“Claire has died of most cancers on Mark Rylance’s sixty fifth birthday. Her youngest daughter having died in 2012, she leaves her eldest daughter, Juliet Rylance, her two husbands, and numerous beloved buddies in England and America.”
Van Kampen was “one of many finniest and [most] inspiring ladies we’ve ever identified,” her household added. “We thank her for imbuing our lives together with her magic, music, laughter, and love.”
After learning music idea and piano on the Royal School of Music in London, van Kampen joined the Royal Shakespeare Firm in 1986, BBC Information studies. She composed the music for a 1989 manufacturing of Hamlet, starring Rylance, whom she married that 12 months.
“Claire utterly modified my life,” Rylance stated in a 2023 interview with The Guardian. “She launched me to that world of classical and fashionable music, and it was very a lot round music that we fell in love. We’ve at all times beloved working collectively. … From the start, we have been at all times imagining tales that we may inform collectively. I’ve misplaced depend of what number of initiatives we’ve imagined, sitting there at our kitchen desk. Claire got here to me with two youngsters whom I raised together with her and [her first husband], however we by no means had youngsters of our personal, so, to a point, our initiatives have been our youngsters. They’re an unimaginable, inventive pleasure to us, and Claire is the rock of my life.”
Van Kampen additionally composed scores for the Broadway productions of True West, Boeing-Boeing, and La Bête, plus diversifications of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night time and Richard III. She labored as an affiliate and senior analysis fellow for early fashionable music at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and a inventive affiliate on the Previous Vic Theatre.
She wrote the play Farinelli and the King, the 2017 Broadway manufacturing of which starred Rylance. She additionally notched a collaboration together with her husband when she labored as Wolf Corridor’s Tudor music advisor and arranger.
Along with her earlier husband, architect Christopher van Kampen, Claire welcomed two daughters, actor Juliet Rylance and filmmaker Nataasha van Kampen, the latter of whom died of a mind hemorrhage in 2012.