Kate Loder
Kate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, (21 August 1825 – 30 August 1904) was an English composer and pianist.[1]
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Biography
Kate Loder was born on 21 August 1825,[1] on Bathwick Street, Bathwick,[2] within Bath, Somerset where the Loder family were prominent musicians. Her father was the flautist George Loder. According to Grove, her mother was a piano teacher born Fanny Philpot, who was the sister of the pianist Lucy Anderson.[3] However, genealogical research suggests Kate's mother was Frances Elizabeth Mary Kirkham (1802–50),[4] daughter of Thomas Bulman Kirkham (1778–1845) and Marianne Beville Moore (c.1781 – 1810).[2] Frances Kirkham's step-mother was Jane Harriett Philpot (1802–63), second wife to Thomas Bulman Kirkham and sister of the Lucy Philpot who married the violinist George Frederick Anderson, becoming Lucy Anderson.[5][6][7] Kate was also the sister of conductor and composer George Loder,[1] and the cousin of composer Edward Loder.[8]
Kater Loder studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her performance of Mendelssohn's G minor piano concerto at the Hanover-square Rooms on 27 May 1843, when she was aged 17, may have been her public debut.[9] The following year, in 1844, aged just 18, she became the first female professor of harmony at the Royal Academy.[10][11][12] On 16 December 1851 at St Marylebone Church, Westminster, she married Sir Henry Thompson[13] and soon afterwards, at her husband's insistence, gave up her public performing career. She remained active in music, continuing to compose, and taught pupils including Sarah Louisa Kilpack[14] who nowadays is better known as an artist.
On 10 July 1871,[15] the first British performance of the German Requiem of Johannes Brahms took place privately at Loder's home in Wimpole Street, London. It was performed using a version for piano duet accompaniment which became known as the "London Version" (German: Londoner Fassnung) of the Requiem.[16] Brahms based it on an 1866 arrangement for piano of his first, six-movement version of the Requiem.[17] The pianists were Kate Loder and Cipriani Potter (who was then 79 years old; he died that September).[15]
She died on 30 August 1904 at Headley Rectory,[18] Headley, Surrey.[1]
Works
Selected works include:[8][19][20]
Opera
- L'elisir d'amore (1855)
Orchestral
- Overture (1844)
Chamber
- String quartet in G minor (1846)
- Sonata for violin and piano (1847)
- String quartet in E minor (1847)
- Piano trio (1886)
Piano
- Twelve studies (1852)
- Three romances (1853)
- Pensée fugitive (1854)
- En Avant galop (1863)
- Three Duets (1869)
- Mazurka (1899)
- Scherzo (1899)
Songs
- My faint spirit (1854), text by Shelley
External links
References
Sources
- ed. Temperley, Nicholas (2016). Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and His Family. The Boydell Press. p. 314. ISBN 978-1-78327-078-1. Retrieved 1 April 2016.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
Notes
- Temperley, Nicholas (2001). "Kate (Fanny) Loder (b. Bath 21 August 1825 d. Headley, Surrey 30 August 1904))". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 15. London: Macmillan. p. 59. ISBN 0-333-60800-3.
- "Kate Fanny Loder". Rootsweb. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- Temperley, Nicholas (2001). "George Loder jr (b. Bath 1816 d. Adelaide 15 July 1868)". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 15. London: Macmillan. p. 58. ISBN 0-333-60800-3.
- Find My Past: Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 4 September 1823: Mr. Geo. Loder, professor of music, of this city, to Frances, eldest daughter of Mr. Kirkham, of Pulteney-street.
- Find My Past: Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 7 December 1820: MARRIED. Mr. Thomas Kirkham, of Pulteney-street, to Jane, daughter of Mr. Philpott, of Bennett-street.
- Find My Past: Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 20 August 1863: 13 Aug., in this city, Jane Harriet Kirkham, widow of Thomas Bullman Kirkham, Esq., and sister of Mrs. Anderson, Nottingham-place, Regent's-park, London.
- "Lawleys of Bath Tree". Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- Burton, Nigel; Temperley, Nicholas (1994). "Loder, Kate (Fanny) (b. Bath 21 August 1825 d. Headley, Surrey 30 August 1904)". In Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (eds.). New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. London: Macmillan. p. 285. ISBN 0-333-51598-6.
- The Morning Post, Monday 29 May 1843
- Smith, Alice Mary Smith (2003). Symphonies.
- Warrack, John Hamilton; West, Ewan (1996). The concise Oxford dictionary of opera (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Oxford University Press, USA. p. 295. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
Kate Loder (1825–1904).
- Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- "Henry Thompson". Roots Web. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
- Temperley, Nicholas (2016). Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and His Family. p. 186. ISBN 9781783270781.
- Musgrave, Michael (1987). Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary, and Analytical Studies. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 6. ISBN 0-521-32606-0.
- "Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (London version)". Gramophone. Haymarket: 92. June 1997. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
- Swafford, Jan (1999). Johannes Brahms: a Biography. London: Macmillan. p. 311. ISBN 0-333-59662-5.
- "England and Wales, National Probate Calendar". Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- Ballchin, Robert, ed. (1983). "Loder, afterwards Thompson (Kate Fanny), Lady". Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980. 36. London: K. G. Saur. p. 87. ISBN 0-86291-333-0.
- Fuller, Sophie (1994). Pandora Guide to Women Composers. London: Pandora. pp. 191–192. ISBN 0-04-440897-8.