Kate Lucy Ward
British composer
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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"
