Kate Lucy Ward

Catherine "Kate" Lucy Ward (29 April 1829[1] – 20 October 1915), later Bridgen Carter, was a British composer,[2] teacher, and vocalist.[3]

She was born in Highworth, Wiltshire,[4][5] the fifth daughter of Isaiah, a painter, and Anne Ward.[6] She had five sisters, Lydia Atmore, Anne, Helen Rose, Frances "Fanny" Agnes, and Adelaide, and younger brothers Henry Isaiah, Jabez Paul, and Francis. She was baptised in a non-conformist church in 1829,[7] but was baptised into the Church of England in 1846.[1] She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Felix Mendelssohn praised her compositions during one of his visits to England.[8]

In 1886, she married Alfred Thomas Bridgen Carter.[9] She died in Richmond, Surrey in 1915.[6]

Ward's music was published by A. Hammond & Co.[10] Her compositions include:

Theatre
Vocal
  • "Ah, My Heart is Weary" [12]
  • "At the Gate"
  • "Bell of the Wreck"[13]
  • "Do Not Look at Life's Long Sorrow" (text by Adelaide A. Procter)[14]
  • "Lock of Brown Hair" [15]
  • "Love is Timid" (text by Daniel Weir)
  • "Mother, the Winds are at Play"[16]
  • "O Loving Eyes" (text by Florence Percy)
  • "Poppies Pale on Thy Pillow Weep" (text by Florence Percy)
  • "Silver Moth"[17]
  • "True Hearts"
  • "True Song" (text by Florence Percy)[18]
  • "Warrior's Grave"
  • "Watching"

References
  1. Wiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1922
  2. Stern, Susan, 1953- (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Crowest, Frederick James (1895). The Dictionary of British Musicians: From the Earliest Times to the Present. Jarrold and Sons.
  4. 1901 England Census
  5. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  6. "Deaths". The Wiltshire Advertiser. 4 November 1915. p. 5. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  7. England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970
  8. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837–1915
  10. The Reliquary. John Russell Smith. 1872.
  11. The Choir: A Weekly Journal of Music, Literature and Art. Metzler. 1874.
  12. Women Composers: A Biographical Handbook of Women's Work in Music. Chandler-Ebel. 1913.
  13. Public Opinion. G. Cole. 1873.
  14. The Musical Times. Novello. 1871.
  15. The Illustrated London News. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 1876.
  16. Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
  17. Kirby, Sarah (August 2019). "The Only Thing Womanish is the Composer: Music at 19th Century Exhibitions of Women's Work". Music & Letters. 100 (3): 420–446.
  18. The Musical World. J. Alfredo Novello. 1868.


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