Caroline Reinagle

Caroline Reinagle (born Caroline Orger) (1818 – 11 March 1892) was an English 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[1] and a piano concerto, published 1842[1] and performed by her in 1843 at Hanover Square Rooms.[2]

In 1846[2] she married Alexander Reinagle. She died in Tiverton, Devon, in 1892.

Compositions

Her only apparently surviving compositions[2] 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.[3] Composed but possibly lost also were at least one piano quartet and a cello sonata in addition to the concerto and trio.

References

  1. ^ a b The Musical World at Google Books, 1842 Volume, with 14 search "hits" for Orger, including several for a publication of her piano concerto op. 2 - including a review in the May 19, 1842 issue on p. 155; and one for a performance of her trio.
  2. ^ a b c "Biography at Hemingways-Studio". http://hemingways-studio.org/dictionary/Entries/S23124.htm. Retrieved 11 July 2010. 
  3. ^ See eg OCLC 481610958.