Kate Fanny Loder Born 1.8.1826 Bath Died 30.8.1904 Headley, Surrey
Daughter of flautist George Loder and sister of George Loder Jnr 1816-1850, and cousin of Edward Loder 1813-1865 both composers. Kate's mother was Fanny Philpot, a leading piano teacher in Bath.
She initially studied under Henry Field and Miss Batterbury and subsequently at the Royal Academy under Lucy Anderson and Charles Lucas. Gained King's Scholarship in 1839. in 1844 she became a professor of harmony there. After her marriage in 1851 to the eminent surgeon Henry Thompson later knighted, she became Lady Thompson. Some of her piano music was published under this name. For the last twenty years of her life she was severely paralysed. She had a son and two daughters
Orchestral
Overture 1844
Chamber
Piano Trio in D minor 1863
String Quartet in G minor 1846
String Quartet in E minor 1847
Violin Sonata in E major 1847
Piano
Twelve studies 1852 pub. by Edwin Ashdown Ltd.
Three Romances 1853
Pense fugitive 1854
Little duets
Three duettinos 1869
Sonata No.1
Sonata No.2
'En Avant' galop 1863 pub. by Edwin Ashdown Ltd
Three duets
Mazurka 1899 pub. by Edwin Ashdown Ltd
Scherzo 1899 pub. by Edwin Ashdown Ltd.
Songs
My Faint Spirit, canzonet words by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1854 pub. by Edwin Ashdown Ltd.
The Blind Boy 1873 words by T King
Where the Stout Nor-wester Blows words by Miss M A Browne
Winter is Past pub. by Edwin Ashdown Ltd.
Organ
Six easy voluntaries Set 1 pub. by Novello
Six easy voluntaries Set 2 pub. by Novello
Opera
L'Elisir d'Amore 1855
Fascinating: I had no idea she existed. Her cousin is little enough known to me, though the Bonynge recording of the Night Dancers overture has helped a lot. So many women composers are overshadowed by male surnamesakes: Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Fanny Mendelssohn, Imogen Holst, Alma Mahler, Clara Schumann...
And Olga von Radecki (Latvian-American pianist-American associated with Harvard) (1853-1933) by Robert Radecke (1830-1911) (no relation in this as in most cases, but unlike the ones you mention, I think) (Radecke slightly better known. ... I think. Actually, at that level of obscurity, maybe not. Radecke in turn with a composing/teaching brother Rudolf (1829-1893) somewhat less known... both choral conductors.)
On Saturday October 17th at 1 pm there will be the first modern performance of Kate Loder's piano trio in D minor, which was recently discovered in the archive of a Canadian university. It will be performed in the Bathwick Parish Church, near where grew up.