Caroline Reinagle (1818 – 11 March 1892) was an English

England

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 composer, pianist, and writer. Only a few of her works have survived.

Biography

Caroline Reinagle was born in London in 1818. In the 1840s she had several of her works published and performed, including a piano trio, premiered by 1842 and a piano concerto, published 1842 and performed by her in 1843 at Hanover Square Rooms.

In 1846 she married Alexander Reinagle

Alexander Reinagle

Alexander Robert Reinagle was an English-born American composer, organist, and theater musician...

. She died in Tiverton, Devon, in 1892.

Compositions

Her only apparently surviving compositions are some songs, a tarantella in E minor and a sonata in A (the latter two works for piano). The last two have been republished by Vivace Press. Also surviving is a pair of articles in the 1862 Musical Times entitled A Few Words on Piano Playing. Composed but possibly lost also were at least one piano quartet and a cello sonata in addition to the concerto and trio.