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[[File:Edward James Loder.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Edward James Loder as it appeared on the first page of ''[[The Illustrated London News]]'', 27 November 1858]]
'''Edward James Loder''' (10 July 1809 – 5 April 1865)<ref>Although Grove and other sources give 1813 as Edward Loder's year of birth, there are parish records giving his birth as 10 July 1809 at his christening on 3 July 1811 at St Swithin, [[Walcot, Bath]].</ref> was an English composer and conductor. His best remembered work is perhaps the 1855 opera ''[[Raymond and Agnes]]'',<ref name="Grove_EL"/> though his most successful opera during his lifetime was ''The Night Dancers''.

==Biography==
Loder was born in [[Bath, Somerset]]. He was the son of [[John David Loder]] (1788–1846),<ref name="Grove_EL"/> a violinist and musical director of the [[Theatre Royal, Bath]],<ref name="Grove_JL"/> and his wife Rosamund, née Mills (1787–1856), a step-daughter of the comedian [[John Fawcett (actor)|John Fawcett]]. Edward Loder's twin brother John Fawcett Loder (1809–1853) was a violinist, and a younger brother William Sowerby Loder (1812–1851) was a cellist who married the soprano Emily Woodyatt. His cousins included the composer and conductor [[George Loder]] (1816–1868)<ref name="Grove_EL"/> and George's sister, composer and pianist [[Kate Loder]].<ref name="Grove_KL"/>

Loder's family sent him to Frankfurt in 1826 to study under [[Ferdinand Ries]], who was an old friend of the family. He returned to England in 1828 and embarked on a successful career as an opera conductor in London as the music director of [[Princess's Theatre]], and, from 1851 in Manchester, leading the Theatre Royal. His first composing success was ''Nourjahad'' in 1834. His compositions include operas, [[cantata]]s, [[ballad opera]]s, [[string quartet]]s, and many songs. Today he is most remembered for his opera ''[[Raymond and Agnes]]'' (1855), which was revived in Cambridge in 1966.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shaman|first=William|title=More EJS: Discography of the Edward J. Smith Recordings – Unique Opera Records Corporation (1972–77), A.N.N.A. Record Company (1978–82), Special Label ... Addendum to the Golden Age of Opera Series|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0313298356|pages=51|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=En3QYRnApqMC&pg=PA51}}</ref> His most successful opera during his lifetime was ''The Night Dancers'', sometimes referred to as ''The Wilis, or The Night Dancers'', or ''Giselle, or The Night Dancers'', first produced in 1846 and revived at Covent Garden in 1860.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beale|first=Robert|title=Charles Hallé: A Musical Life (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)| year=2007| publisher=Ashgate| isbn=978-0754661375| page=129| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WyJMLqm3808C&pg=PA129}}</ref>

On 10 November 1831, Loder married Elizabeth Mary Watson (c.1813–1880) at [[Bristol]].<ref name=rootsweb>{{cite web|title=Edward James Loder|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=haydencowan&id=I14728|publisher=Rootsweb|access-date=4 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lawrence|first=Vb|title=Strong on Music: Resonances, 1836–49 v. 1: New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, 1836–75|year=1995|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-47009-2|page=84|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zuCOQY-RN1wC&pg=PA185}}</ref> It appears they were separated within a few years, as in 1861 he stated that his wife was Louisa Alice Foster, born c. 1838.<ref name=rootsweb/> He appears to have fathered a son (Edward Loder Garside 1850–1940) with the actress Clara Garside Neville (1827–1869) during his marriage to Louisa.<ref name=rootsweb/> Tributes at the time of his death state that he was a bachelor.<ref name=rootsweb/>

He died in London in 1865.<ref name="Grove_EL"/>

==Works==
*[[Incidental music]] for the [[melodrama]] ''[[Black-Eyed Susan|Black-Eyed Susan, or All in the Downs]]'' by [[Douglas William Jerrold]] (18 November 1830, Theatre Royal, Bath)
*''Nourjahad'', [[grand opera]] by [[Samuel James Arnold]] (21 July 1834, [[Lyceum Theatre, London]])
*''The Widow Queen'', historical [[Drama#Opera|drama]] by [[Thomas James Serle]] (9 October 1834, English Opera House, London)
*''The Covenanters'', Scottish [[ballad opera]] by [[Thomas John Dibdin]] (10 August 1835, English Opera House, London)
*''The Dice of Death'', melodrama by [[John Oxenford]] (14 September 1835, English Opera House, London)
*''The Foresters, or Twenty-Five Years Since'', drama by Thomas James Serle (19 October 1838, [[Royal Opera House|Covent Garden Theatre]], London)
*''Francis the First'', opera by McKinlan (6 November 1838, [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane Theatre]], London)
*''The Deer Stalkers, or The Outlaw's Daughter'', Scottish operatic drama by [[Mark Lemon]] (12 April 1841, English Opera House, London)
*''The Wilis, or The Night Dancers'', romantic drama by [[George Soane]] (28 October 1846, [[Princess's Theatre, London]])
*''The Sultana'', comedietta, adaptation from [[Isaac Bickerstaffe]]'s ''The Sultan, or a Peep into the Seraglio''<ref>{{cite journal|title= Provincial: Liverpool|journal=[[The Musical World]]|issue=13|volume=XXIII|publisher=William Spencer Johnson at the Nassau Steam Press |page= 204 |date= 25 March 1848 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=_PksAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA204 |access-date=9 May 2009 |quote= The performance concluded with the afterpiece of the Sultana which was altered from Isaac Bickerstaff's Sultan and adapted especially for Mdme. Thillon at the Princess's Theatre}}</ref> (8 January 1848, Princess's Theatre, London)
*''The Andalusian, or the Young Guard'', [[operetta]] by George Soane (20 January 1848, Princess's Theatre, London)
*''Robin Goodfellow, or the Frolics of Puck'', ballad opera by Edward Loder (6 December 1848, Princess's Theatre, London)
*''The Island of Calypso'', [[masque|operatic masque]] by George Soane (14 April 1852, [[Exeter Hall]], London)
*''Dick Whittington and His Cat'', [[burletta]] by Mark Lemon based on [[Dick Whittington and His Cat|the English legend]] (December 1852, Theatre Royal, Manchester)
*''Balcony Courtship'', [[farce]] by Edward Loder (6 May 1853, Theatre Royal, Manchester)
*''[[Raymond and Agnes]]'', romantic opera by [[Edward Fitzball]] (14 August 1855, Theatre Royal, Manchester)
*''Never Judge by Appearances'', operetta by Henri Drayton (7 July 1859, [[Adelphi Theatre]], London)
*''Saved by a Song'', operetta by [[Henry Robert Addison]] (21 December 1868 (posthumous), Princess's Theatre, London)

==References==
{{reflist|30em|refs=
<ref name="Grove_JL">{{cite encyclopedia | last=Temperley | first=Nicholas|author-link=Nicholas Temperley|editor-last=Sadie|editor-first=Stanley|editor-link=Stanley Sadie| encyclopedia=[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]|title=John David Loder (bap. Bath 14 August 1788 d. London 13 February 1846) |year=2001 |publisher=Macmillan |volume=15 |location=London |isbn=0-333-60800-3 |page=56 }}</ref>
<ref name="Grove_EL">{{cite encyclopedia | last=Temperley | first=Nicholas|author-link=Nicholas Temperley|editor-last=Sadie |editor-first=Stanley|editor-link=Stanley Sadie| encyclopedia=[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]|title=Edward (James) Loder (b. Bath 1813 d. London 5 April 1865) |year=2001 |publisher=Macmillan |volume=15 |location=London |isbn=0-333-60800-3 |pages=56–57 }}</ref>
<ref name="Grove_KL">{{cite encyclopedia | last=Temperley | first=Nicholas|author-link=Nicholas Temperley|editor-last=Sadie |editor-first=Stanley|editor-link=Stanley Sadie| encyclopedia=[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]|title=Kate (Fanny) Loder (b. Bath 21 August 1825 d. Headley, Surrey 30 August 1904)) |year=2001 |publisher=Macmillan |volume=15 |location=London |isbn=0-333-60800-3 |page=59 }}</ref>}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |title= British Musical Biography |last= Brown |first= James D. |year= 1897  |publisher=Chadfield & Son, Ltd |isbn= 978-1-4067-5614-2 |page= 252|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=iDkZEPi4OPQC&pg=PA252|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title= A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800–1850 |last= Nicoll |first= Allardyce|author-link= Allardyce Nicoll |year= 1930 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location= Cambridge |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=gnc3AAAAIAAJ|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809–1865) and His Family |editor-last=Temperley|editor-first=Nicholas|editor-link=Nicholas Temperley|year= 2016 |publisher=The Boydell Press |isbn= 978-1-78327-078-1 |page= 314 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KfOjCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40|ref=none}}

==External links==
* {{IMSLP|author=Loder, Edward James|cname=Edward James Loder}}

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