Clara Edwards (April 17, 1880[1] – January 17, 1974) was an American singer, pianist, and composer of art songs.
[4] She married physician John Milton Edwards before finishing her degree, and the couple moved to Vienna, where she continued musical studies and had a daughter.
Two years later her husband died, leaving her a single mother in New York city with no steady income.
Her songs were "quickly taken up by publishers",[5] and many famous singers performed them, including soprano Lily Pons and baritones John Charles Thomas and Ezio Pinza.
[5] They are "distinguished for their tasteful and truly lovely melodies" and considered some of the "best of the ballad style concert song[s]".