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British composer

Catherine Lucy Ward Bridgen Carter (29 April 1829 – 20 October 1915), was a British composer, teacher, and vocalist. She published her music under the name Kate Lucy Ward.

Ward was born in Highworth, Wiltshire, the fifth daughter of Isaiah, a painter, and Anne Ward. 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, but was baptised into the Church of England in 1846. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Felix Mendelssohn praised her compositions during one of his visits to England.

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

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

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

References

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  3. Crowest, Frederick James (1895). The Dictionary of British Musicians: From the Earliest Times to the Present. Jarrold and Sons.
  4. ^ 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)
  5. 1901 England Census
  6. 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.
  7. ^ "Deaths". The Wiltshire Advertiser. 4 November 1915. p. 5. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
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  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.
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  18. The Musical World. J. Alfredo Novello. 1868.


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