Kate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, was an English composer and pianist.
Background
Kate Loder was born on 21 August 1825, on Bathwick Street, Bathwick, 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.
Career
However, genealogical research suggests Kate"s mother was Frances Elizabeth Mary Kirkham (1802-1850), daughter of Thomas Bulman Kirkham (1778–1845) and Marianne Beville Moore (c1781 – 1810). Kater Loder studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and made her debut in 1844, playing Mendelssohn"s G minor piano concerto. Loder became the first woman professor of harmony at the Royal Academy.
On 10 July 1871, the first British performance of the German Requiem of Johannes Brahms took place privately at Loder"s home in Wimpole Street, London.
lieutenant was performed using a version for piano duet accompaniment which became known as the "London Version" (German: Londoner Fassnung) of the Requiem. Brahms based it on an 1866 arrangement for piano of his first, six-movement version of the Requiem.
The pianists were Kate Loder and Cipriani Potter. She died on 30 August 1904 at Headley Rectory, Headley, Surrey.