Kate Loder

Kate Loder, Lady Thompson

Kate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, (21 August 1825 – 30 August 1904) was an English composer and pianist.[1]

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] Kate was also the sister of conductor and composer George Loder,[1] and the cousin of composer Edward Loder.[4]

However, genealogical research suggests Kate's mother was Frances Elizabeth Mary Kirkham (1802–50), 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]

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 may have been her public debut.[6] On 16 December 1851 at St Marylebone Church, Westminster, she married Sir Henry Thompson[7] and soon afterward gave up her public performing career. In 1844, she became the first woman professor of harmony at the Royal Academy.[8][9][10]

On 10 July 1871,[11] 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.[12] Brahms based it on an 1866 arrangement for piano of his first, six-movement version of the Requiem.[13] The pianists were Kate Loder and Cipriani Potter (who was then 79 years old; he died that September).[11]

She died on 30 August 1904 at Headley Rectory,[14] Headley, Surrey.[1]

Works

Selected works include:[4][15][16]

Opera

Orchestral

Chamber

Piano

Songs

References

Sources

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Temperley, Nicholas (2001). "Kate (Fanny) Loder (b. Bath 21 August 1825 d. Headley, Surrey 30 August 1904))". In Sadie, Stanley. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 15. London: Macmillan. p. 59. ISBN 0-333-60800-3.
  2. 1 2 "Kate Fanny Loder". Rootsweb. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Temperley, Nicholas (2001). "George Loder jr (b. Bath 1816 d. Adelaide 15 July 1868)". In Sadie, Stanley. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 15. London: Macmillan. p. 58. ISBN 0-333-60800-3.
  4. 1 2 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. New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. London: Macmillan. p. 285. ISBN 0-333-51598-6.
  5. ↑ "Lawleys of Bath Tree". Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  6. ↑ The Morning Post, Monday May 29, 1843
  7. ↑ "Henry Thompson". Roots Web. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  8. ↑ Smith, Alice Mary Smith (2003). Symphonies.
  9. ↑ Warrack, John Hamilton; West, Ewan (1996). The concise Oxford dictionary of opera (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  10. ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  11. 1 2 Musgrave, Michael (1987). Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary, and Analytical Studies. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 6. ISBN 0-521-32606-0.
  12. ↑ "Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (London version).". Gramophone. Haymarket: 92. June 1997. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  13. ↑ Swafford, Jan (1999). Johannes Brahms: a Biography. London: Macmillan. p. 311. ISBN 0-333-59662-5.
  14. ↑ "England and Wales, National Probate Calendar". Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ Fuller, Sophie (1994). Pandora Guide to Women Composers. London: Pandora. pp. 191–192. ISBN 0-04-440897-8.


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