Caroline Reinagle 1818-1892 (Orger)

[giles.enders]

Does anyone know where I might find the orchestral and chamber music of Caroline Reinagle.  When she died in 1892 she left a sizeable estate of over £9.000 but no mention of her music.

[eschiss1]

Loeb Music Library at Harvard has some of her songs, a tarantelle and a piano sonata in A.  A piano sonata op. 6 (in A; the same work presumably) is at St. Pancras Library and at the Library of Congress. (Worldcat again.) Cornell (where I'm near) has her tarantella in E minor op. 4 (1998 Vivace Press edition) (the Library of Congress has this too.)
Eric

[giles.enders]

Thanks for that, I am grabbing at straws, in that I am trying to follow the trails of how her compositions arrived where they did.  Most of what is available seems to have come from collections. What I was realy after was her piano concerto though I would like to find her other orchestral works and any chamber music which I am in a position to have performed if it is any good.

[eschiss1]

Will see if I can find out anything too. She performed the piano concerto on May 3, 1843 but aside from that I know very little (well, http://www.barbaraharbach.com/iframes/editions_piano.html - this link has a page of her piano sonata and her tarantella...) Oh. Also, the concerto was published by Wessel & Stapleton (see http://books.google.com/books?id=4vgsAAAAYAAJ , search for Orger.  The review is from the May 19, 1842 edition of the Musical World; see p. 155. Other hits for 'Orger' in the same volume (year) reveal that it was her "op.2"; on p. 376&378 they mention a trio (piano trio?) of hers (Otto Ebel's book on Women Composers claims this was not performed until 1844. The review- of a performance, not the score- is in the November 24, 1842 issue. Maybe it wasn't a full performance, or something.); she is also mentioned as a performer. )

Ebel's book mentions the trio, a piano quartet in E-flat, and a cello sonata. No idea at the moment where to find them in any sense, but will keep looking.
Eric

[eschiss1]

According to http://hemingways-studio.org/dictionary/Entries/S23124.htm (and a couple other sources but they may be quoting each other- I don't know on what they base this claim though) none of the chamber music I mention above, nor trio, nor piano quartet(s), nor cello sonata, appears to have survived. ("None of these works, ...") - including the concerto, which they also mention.  That leaves the few surviving works alas, the piano sonata, piano pieces and songs (not claiming these are poor- I haven't seen more than a page of the piano sonata- just that maybe it would be nice to have more too, even if the Musical World reviewer was right that the piano concerto falls off in the finale like so many other works do.)

[JimL]

According to http://hemingways-studio.org/dictionary/Entries/S23124.htm (and a couple other sources but they may be quoting each other- I don't know on what they base this claim though) none of the chamber music I mention above, nor trio, nor piano quartet(s), nor cello sonata, appears to have survived. ("None of these works, ...") - including the concerto, which they also mention.  That leaves the few surviving works alas, the piano sonata, piano pieces and songs (not claiming these are poor- I haven't seen more than a page of the piano sonata- just that maybe it would be nice to have more too, even if the Musical World reviewer was right that the piano concerto falls off in the finale like so many other works do.)

If I may finish your interrupted quote, Eric, "None of these works appears to have survived."  The emphasis is mine.  Perhaps it would be possible to have academic researchers seek out possible MS sources in private collections or other likely repositories.  After all, Raff's original 1st VC appeared to have been lost, too...

[eschiss1]

BTW have added a brief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Reinagle stub to Wikipedia.
Eric