Kate Loder

Kate Fanny Loder (born August 21, 1825 (or 1826?) In Bath , † August 30, 1904 in Headley (Surrey) ) was an English pianist and composer .

life and work

Kate Loder showed musical talent at an early age and received piano lessons. At the age of thirteen she was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied piano with Lucy Anderson and composition with Charles Lucas , possibly also with Cipriani Potter . In 1839 and 1841 she won a royal scholarship. 1840 she made her first as a pianist at concerts at the Royal Academy public in appearance, played in 1844 in Her Majesty's Theater , the first piano concerto by Felix Mendelssohn in the presence of the composer and performed in 1847 as part of the Royal Philharmonic Society with the 2nd piano concerto by Weber .

Kate Loder had numerous private students and in 1844 received a teaching position for harmony at the Royal Academy. In 1851 she married the surgeon Henry Thompson (1820-1904), but kept her position at the Royal Academy. From 1851 she gradually withdrew from the concert stage, and then almost completely in 1854. Guests at their salon on Wimpole Street in London included Joseph Joachim and Clara Schumann . 1871 rang in her house for the first time in England, the German Requiem by Brahms in the version with two pianos, which they played together with Cipriani Potter. From the 1870s onwards, symptoms of paralysis increased.

Kate Loder also emerged as a composer. Her oeuvre includes the opera L'elisir d'amore , an overture premiered at the Royal Academy in 1844, two string quartets and other works for chamber music or piano solo, organ pieces and songs.

literature

Nicholas Temperley: Loder, Kate. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

Web links

Loder, Kate (Fanny), married. Thompson, Lady Thompson in the instrumentalist lexicon of the Sophie Drinker Institute, Hanna Bergmann

Individual proof

↑ Loder, Kate (Fanny), married. Thompson, Lady Thompson in the instrumentalist lexicon of the Sophie Drinker Institute, Hanna Bergmann

personal data
SURNAME	Loder, Kate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thompson, Kate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bath
DATE OF DEATH	August 30, 1904
Place of death	Headley (Surrey)

[1] Loder, Kate (Fanny), married. Thompson, Lady Thompson in the instrumentalist lexicon of the Sophie Drinker Institute, Hanna Bergmann