Kate Loder

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Kate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, (21 August 1825 – 30 August 1904) was an English composer and pianist.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Temperley|first=Nicholas|author-link=Nicholas Temperley|editor-last=Sadie|editor-first=Stanley|editor-link=Stanley Sadie|encyclopedia=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|title=Kate (Fanny) Loder (b. Bath 21 August 1825 d. Headley, Surrey 30 August 1904))|year=2001|publisher=Macmillan|volume=15|location=London|isbn=0-333-60800-3|page=59}}

Biography

=Ancestry=

Kate Loder was born on 21 August 1825, on Bathwick Street, Bathwick,{{cite web|title=Kate Fanny Loder|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=haydencowan&id=I14727|publisher=Rootsweb|access-date=4 February 2012}} 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.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Temperley|first=Nicholas|author-link=Nicholas Temperley|editor-last=Sadie|editor-first=Stanley|editor-link=Stanley Sadie|encyclopedia=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|title=George Loder jr (b. Bath 1816 d. Adelaide 15 July 1868) |year=2001 |publisher=Macmillan |volume=15 |location=London |isbn=0-333-60800-3 |page=58 }} However, genealogical research suggests Kate's mother was Frances Elizabeth Mary Kirkham (1802–50),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. daughter of Thomas Bulman Kirkham (1778–1845) and Marianne Beville Moore (c.1781 – 1810). 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.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.{{cite web |url=http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/18927761/family?cfpid=734276569 |title=Lawleys of Bath Tree |publisher=Ancestry.co.uk |access-date=13 June 2012}} Kate was also the sister of conductor and composer George Loder, and the cousin of composer Edward Loder.{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Burton|first1=Nigel|last2=Temperley|first2=Nicholas|author2-link=Nicholas Temperley|editor1-last=Sadie|editor1-first=Julie Anne|editor2-last=Samuel|editor2-first=Rhian|encyclopedia=New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|title=Loder, Kate (Fanny) (b. Bath 21 August 1825 d. Headley, Surrey 30 August 1904)|year=1994|publisher=Macmillan|location=London|isbn=0-333-51598-6|page=285}}

=Royal Academy of Music=

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.The Morning Post, Monday 29 May 1843 The following year, in 1844, aged just 18, she became the first female professor of harmony at the Royal Academy.{{cite book |title=Symphonies|last=Smith|first=Alice Mary|year=2003}}{{cite book |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00warr|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00warr/page/295 295]|access-date=5 January 2011|first1=John Hamilton|last1=Warrack|author1-link=John Warrack|first2=Ewan|last2=West|year=1996|isbn=978-0-19-280028-2 }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&q=Kate+Loder+norton&pg=PA286|title=The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=9780393034875|access-date=5 January 2011}}

=Marriage=

On 16 December 1851 at St Marylebone Church, Westminster, she married the eminent surgeon Henry Thompson (Kt. 1867. Bt. 1899, 'of Wimpole Street').{{cite web|title=Henry Thompson|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=haydencowan&id=I14729|publisher=Roots Web|access-date=18 February 2012}} After her marriage she gradually gave up her public performing career, the last public appearance being in March 1854.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. 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{{cite book|title=Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809–1865) and His Family|last=Temperley|first=Nicholas|author-link=Nicholas Temperley|year=2016|page=186|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-78327-078-1}} who nowadays is better known as an artist.

Kate Loder had three children from her marriage:{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Thompson, Sir Henry |volume = 26 |last= |first= |author-link= |pages= 433-436 |short=1}}

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.

Middleton, L., & Golby, D. (2004, September 23). [https://0-www-oxforddnb-com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-16917 `Loder, George (1816–1868)], conductor and composer pianist and composer`. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online resource, accessed 7 October 2024.

=Death=

Kate Loder died on 30 August 1904 at Headley Rectory,{{cite web |url=http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1904&iid=31874_222593-00318&fn=Kate+Fanny&ln=Thompson&st=d&ssrc=&pid=4879550 |title=England and Wales, National Probate Calendar |publisher=Ancestry.co.uk |access-date=18 June 2012}} Headley, Surrey.

=The Brahms <i>Requiem</i>=

On 10 July 1871,{{Cite book | last=Musgrave | first=Michael | title=Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary, and Analytical Studies | publisher=Cambridge University Press | location=Cambridge | year=1987 | volume=2 | page=6 | isbn=0-521-32606-0 }} 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" ({{langx|de|Londoner Fassnung|links=no}}) of the Requiem.{{Cite magazine|date=June 1997 |title=Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (London version). |magazine=Gramophone |page=92|url=http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/June%201997/92/824216/47) |access-date=30 January 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Brahms based it on an 1866 arrangement for piano of his first, six-movement version of the Requiem.{{Cite book|last=Swafford|first=Jan|author-link=Jan Swafford| title=Johannes Brahms: a Biography | publisher=Macmillan | location=London | year=1999 | page=311 | isbn=0-333-59662-5 }} The pianists were Kate Loder and Cipriani Potter (who was then 79 years old; he died that September).

Works

Selected works include:{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Ballchin |editor1-first=Robert | encyclopedia=Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980 |title=Loder, afterwards Thompson (Kate Fanny), Lady |year=1983 |publisher=K. G. Saur |volume=36 |location=London |isbn=0-86291-333-0 |page=87 }}{{Cite book | last=Fuller | first=Sophie | title=Pandora Guide to Women Composers | publisher=Pandora | location=London | year=1994 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/pandoraguidetowo00full/page/191 191–192] | isbn=0-04-440897-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/pandoraguidetowo00full/page/191 }}

=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."The Musical Times, vol. 32, no. 579 (May 1, 1891), p. 297.{{full citation needed|date=November 2023|reason=Author, article?}}Andrew Pink performs (2020) [https://andrewpink.org/2020/12/12/exordia/ ‘Voluntary in B-flat‘. Set 2/vi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525041755/https://andrewpink.org/2020/12/12/exordia/ |date=25 May 2022 }} in Exordia ad missam’ : my lockdown recordings. Online resource, accessed 8 March 2021.

=Piano=

Twelve studies (1852)
Three romances (1853)
Pensée fugitive (1854)
En Avant galop (1863)
Three Duets (1869)
Mazurka in A minor (1899)Included in [https://www.musicroom.com/piano-music-by-women-composers-book-2-piano-solo-hl00370901?tduid=b36e645eb55e699bdc65974df72a1594 Piano Music by Women Composers] Book 2, Hal Leonard (2023)
Scherzo (1899)

=Songs=

My faint spirit (1854), text by Shelley
Queen Mary's Song (nd), text by Tennyson

References

External links

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[https://andrewpink.org/kate-loder-six-easy-voluntaries/ The Organ Music of Kate Loder], performed by Andrew Pink.

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