Edward Loder

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Portrait of Edward James Loder as it appeared on the first page of The Illustrated London News, 27 November 1858

Edward James Loder (10 July 1809 – 5 April 1865)[1] was an English composer and conductor. His best remembered work is perhaps the 1855 opera Raymond and Agnes,[2] though his most successful opera during his lifetime was The Night Dancers.

Biography

Loder was born in Bath, Somerset. He was the son of John David Loder (1788–1846),[2] a violinist and musical director of the Theatre Royal, Bath,[3] and his wife Rosamund, née Mills (1787–1856), a step-daughter of the comedian John Fawcett. Edward Loder's twin brother John Fawcett Loder (1809–1853) was a violinist, and a younger brother William Sowerby Loder (1812–1851) was a cellist who married the soprano Emily Woodyatt. His cousins included the composer and conductor George Loder (1816–1868)[2] and George's sister, composer and pianist Kate Loder.[4]

Loder's family sent him to Frankfurt in 1826 to study under

Princess's Theatre, and, from 1851 in Manchester, leading the Theatre Royal. His first composing success was Nourjahad in 1834. His compositions include operas, cantatas, ballad operas, string quartets, and many songs. Today he is most remembered for his opera Raymond and Agnes (1855), which was revived in Cambridge in 1966.[5] His most successful opera during his lifetime was The Night Dancers, sometimes referred to as The Wilis, or The Night Dancers, or Giselle, or The Night Dancers, first produced in 1846 and revived at Covent Garden in 1860.[6]

On 10 November 1831, Loder married Elizabeth Mary Watson (c.1813–1880) at Bristol.[7][8] It appears they were separated within a few years, as in 1861 he stated that his wife was Louisa Alice Foster, born c. 1838.[7] He appears to have fathered a son (Edward Loder Garside 1850–1940) with the actress Clara Garside Neville (1827–1869) during his marriage to Louisa.[7] Tributes at the time of his death state that he was a bachelor.[7]

He died in London in 1865.[2]

Works

References

  1. ^ Although Grove and other sources give 1813 as Edward Loder's year of birth, there are parish records giving his birth as 10 July 1809 at his christening on 3 July 1811 at St Swithin, Walcot, Bath.
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  5. ISBN 978-0313298356
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  6. ISBN 978-0754661375
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  7. ^ a b c d "Edward James Loder". Rootsweb. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  8. ISBN 978-0-226-47009-2
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  9. ^ "Provincial: Liverpool". The Musical World. XXIII (13). William Spencer Johnson at the Nassau Steam Press: 204. 25 March 1848. Retrieved 9 May 2009. The performance concluded with the afterpiece of the Sultana which was altered from Isaac Bickerstaff's Sultan and adapted especially for Mdme. Thillon at the Princess's Theatre

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