Kate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, (21 August 1825 – 30 August 1904) was an English composer and pianist.

Biography

Kate Loder was born in Bath, where the Loder family were prominent musicians. Her father was the flautist

Flautist

A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays an instrument in the flute family. See List of flautists.The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of dispute among players of the instrument...

 George Loder. Her mother, a piano teacher born Fanny Philpot, was the sister of the pianist Lucy Anderson

Lucy Anderson

Lucy Anderson was the most eminent of the English pianists of the early Victorian era. She is mentioned in the same breath as English pianists of the calibre of William Sterndale Bennett....

. Kate was the sister of conductor and composer George Loder, and the cousin of composer Edward Loder

Edward Loder

Edward James Loder was an English composer and conductor. His best remembered work is the 1855 opera Raymond and Agnes.-Biography:...

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She studied at the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

 in London and made her debut in 1844, playing Mendelssohn's G minor piano concerto

Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mendelssohn)

Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor was written in 1830–1, around the same time as his fourth symphony , and premiered in Munich in October 1831. He had already written a piano concerto in A minor with string accompaniment and two concertos with two pianos...

. In 1851 she married Sir Henry Thompson

Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet FRCS , British surgeon and polymath, was born at Framlingham, Suffolk.-Medical career:...

 and soon afterward gave up her performing career due to illness. Loder became the first woman to work as a professor of harmony at the Royal Academy.

She died in 1904 at Headley, Surrey

Headley, Surrey

Headley is a small village and civil parish in Surrey, England covering 675 hectares.The village is bordered to its west by Leatherhead, to the north by Ashtead and Langley Vale, Walton-on-the-Hill to the east and to its south by Box Hill. It is just outside the M25 motorway encircling...

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Chamber

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

Piano

• Twelve studies (1852)
• Three romances (1853)
• Pensée fugitive (1854)
• En Avant galop (1863)
• Three Duets (1869)
• Mazurka (1899)
• Scherzo (1899)