Catherine Lucy Ward Bridgen Carter (29 April 1829[1] – 20 October 1915), was a British composer,[2] teacher, and vocalist.[3] She published her music under the name Kate Lucy Ward.[4]
Ward was born in Highworth, Wiltshire,[5][6] the fifth daughter of Isaiah, a painter, and Anne Ward.[7] 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,[8] 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.[4]
In 1886, she married Alfred Thomas Bridgen Carter.[9] She died in Richmond, Surrey in 1915.[7]
Ward's music was published by A. Hammond & Co.[10] Her compositions include:
Theatre
music for small stage productions
The Tempest (text by James T. Fields)[11]
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"
^ abWiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1922
^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) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Crowest, Frederick James (1895). The Dictionary of British Musicians: From the Earliest Times to the Present. Jarrold and Sons.
^ abCohen, 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)
^1901 England Census
^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.
^ ab"Deaths". The Wiltshire Advertiser. 4 November 1915. p. 5. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
^England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970
^England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837–1915
^The Reliquary. John Russell Smith. 1872.
^The Choir: A Weekly Journal of Music, Literature and Art. Metzler. 1874.
^Women Composers: A Biographical Handbook of Women's Work in Music. Chandler-Ebel. 1913.
^Public Opinion. G. Cole. 1873.
^The Musical Times. Novello. 1871.
^The Illustrated London News. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 1876.
^Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
^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.
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