Director Claire van Kampen has died, aged 71, on the sixty fifth birthday of her husband, Sir Mark Rylance.
She died within the German city of Kassel on Saturday morning after being identified with most cancers.
A press release, shared on behalf of Sir Mark and her daughter Juliet, described her as “one of the funniest and (most) inspiring women we have ever known”.
It added: “We thank her for imbuing our lives with her magic, music, laughter, and love.
“Ring the bell, sound the trumpets reverie, one thing is finished, one thing is starting. One of many nice clever ones has handed.”
Van Kampen was a live performance pianist, composer, playwright, theatre director and labored in numerous roles at Shakespeare’s Globe for round twenty years.
She wrote and carried out for theatre, radio, tv and movie soundtracks, and was the primary feminine musical director for the Royal Shakespeare Firm and the Royal Nationwide Theatre.
Van Kampen was beforehand married to architect Christopher van Kampen, with whom she had two daughters Juliet and Nataasha.
Her youngest daughter Nataasha, a filmmaker, died aged 28 in 2012 after struggling a mind haemorrhage.
She met her husband, Sir Mark, via the Nationwide Theatre, when she was the musical director of a play he was in.
