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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] 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, 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.[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]

Chamber

• String quartet in G minor (1846)
• Sonata for violin and piano (1847)
• String quartet in E minor (1847)
• Piano trio (1886)

Opera

• L'elisir d'amore (1855)

Orchestral

• Overture (1844)

Organ

• 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.[21][22]

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

• Portraits of Kate Loder at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)

Notes

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[de] Kate Loder

Kate Fanny Loder (* 21. August 1825 (oder 1826?[1]) in Bath; † 30. August 1904 in Headley (Surrey)) war eine englische Pianistin und Komponistin.

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- [en] Kate Loder

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