Kate Loder
Kate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, (21 August 1825 – 30 August 1904) was an English composer and pianist.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Ancestry
[edit | edit source]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]
Royal Academy of Music
[edit | edit source]Kate 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]
Marriage
[edit | edit source]On 16 December 1851 at St Marylebone Church, Westminster, she married the eminent surgeon Henry Thompson (Kt. 1867. Bt. 1899, 'of Wimpole Street').[13] After her marriage she gradually gave up her public performing career, the last public appearance being in March 1854.[14] However, she remained active in music as a composer and professor at the Royal Academy of Music. Among here many pupils was Sarah Louisa Kilpack[15] who nowadays is better known as an artist.
Kate Loder had three children from her marriage:[16]
- Kate Mary Margaret Thompson (1856–1942), author of Handbook to the Public Picture Galleries of Europe (1877); married Rev. Henry William Watkins.
- Henry Francis Herbert Thompson (1859–1944), a barrister and later an Egyptologist lecturing at University College, London.
- Helen Edith Thompson (1860–1930), married the Rev. Henry de Candole.
From 1871 onwards she suffered increasing Infirmity, described as paralysis.[17]
Death
[edit | edit source]Kate Loder died on 30 August 1904 at Headley Rectory,[18] Headley, Surrey.[1]
The Brahms Requiem
[edit | edit source]On 10 July 1871,[19] the first British performance of the German Requiem of Johannes Brahms took place privately at Loder's home, 35 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.[20] Brahms based it on an 1866 arrangement for piano of his first, six-movement version of the Requiem.[21] The pianists were Kate Loder and Cipriani Potter (who was then 79 years old; he died that September).[19]
Works
[edit | edit source]Selected works include:[8][22][23]
Chamber
[edit | edit source]- String quartet in G minor (1846)
- Sonata for violin and piano (1847)
- String quartet in E minor (1847)
- Piano trio (1886)
Opera
[edit | edit source]- L'elisir d'amore (1855)
Orchestral
[edit | edit source]- Overture (1844)
Organ
[edit | edit source]- Six Easy Voluntaries. Set 1. (London: Novello, 1889)
- Six Easy Voluntaries. Set 2. (London: Novello, 1891) – "for the most part fresh and genial in character ... somewhat suggestive of Spohr in the numerous chromatic progressions."[24][25]
Piano
[edit | edit source]- Twelve studies (1852)
- Three romances (1853)
- Pensée fugitive (1854)
- En Avant galop (1863)
- Three Duets (1869)
- Mazurka in A minor (1899)[26]
- Scherzo (1899)
Songs
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c d Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ The Morning Post, Monday 29 May 1843
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Therese Ellsworth (2016). ‘A Magnificent Musician: The Career of Kate Fanny Loder (1825–1904)’ in Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and His Family. Nicholas Temperley (ed). (Martlesham : Boydell Press) 167–90.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Middleton, L., & Golby, D. (2004, September 23). `Loder, George (1816–1868), conductor and composer pianist and composer`. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online resource, accessed 7 October 2024.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[permanent dead link]
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ The Musical Times, vol. 32, no. 579 (May 1, 1891), p. 297.[full citation needed]
- ^ Andrew Pink performs (2020) ‘Voluntary in B-flat‘. Set 2/vi Archived 25 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine in Exordia ad missam’ : my lockdown recordings. Online resource, accessed 8 March 2021.
- ^ Included in Piano Music by Women Composers Book 2, Hal Leonard (2023)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Portraits of Kate Loder at the National Portrait Gallery, LondonLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Free scores by Kate Loder at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- The Organ Music of Kate Loder, performed by Andrew Pink.
Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 392: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal'). Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1825 births
- 1904 deaths
- 19th-century English classical composers
- 20th-century English classical composers
- English women classical composers
- English opera composers
- English Romantic composers
- Musicians from Bath, Somerset
- Academics of the Royal Academy of Music
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
- 19th-century English classical pianists
- 19th-century English musicians
- British women opera composers
- English women music educators
- Women classical pianists
- 20th-century English women composers
- 19th-century English women composers
- Composers for pipe organ
- 19th-century British women pianists
- 20th-century English women pianists
- Wives of baronets