{{Short description|English composer, pianist and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Caroline Reinagle''' (born '''Caroline Orger''') (1 May 1817 – 11 March 1892) was an English classical composer, pianist, and writer. Only a few of her works have survived.
==Life== Reinagle was born in London on 1 May 1817. Her father was Dr Thomas Orger and her mother was Mary Ann Orger who was a comic actress.<ref name=odnb>Patrick Waddington, ‘Reinagle, Caroline (1817–1892)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59338, accessed 14 March 2015]</ref> In the 1840s she had several of her works published and performed, including a piano trio, premiered by 1842<ref name="musworld">{{Google books|4vgsAAAAYAAJ|The Musical World}}, 1842 Volume, with 14 search "hits" for Orger, including several for a publication of her piano concerto op. 2 - including a review in the May 19, 1842 issue on p. 155; and one for a performance of her trio.</ref> and a piano concerto, published 1842<ref name="musworld"/> and performed by her in 1843 at Hanover Square Rooms.<ref name="hemingway">{{cite web |url=http://hemingways-studio.org/dictionary/Entries/S23124.htm |title=Biography at Hemingways-Studio |accessdate=11 July 2010 |archive-date=14 April 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414232746/http://hemingways-studio.org/dictionary/Entries/S23124.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her mother was well read and her father, Dr Thomas Orger was a translator of Ovid and Anacreon, and he had written a book about Napoleon. He didn't object to her mother's acting and he became a founding member of the Swedenborg Society and the editor of ''Intellectual Repository''. Both her parents became members of the Swedenborgian church.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Waddington |first=Patrick |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-59338 |title=Reinagle [née Orger], Caroline (1817–1892), pianist and composer |date=2004-09-23 |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/59338|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>
In 1846<ref name="hemingway"/> she married Alexander Robert Reinagle (1799-1877), organist at St Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, composer of the hymn tune St Peter, and son of Joseph Reinagle. She died in Tiverton, Devon, in 1892.
==Compositions== Her only apparently surviving compositions<ref name="hemingway"/> are some songs, a tarantella in E minor and a sonata in A (the latter two works for piano). The last two have been republished by Vivace Press, and recorded by Hiroaki Takenouchi.<ref>''[https://musicwebinternational.com/2025/12/works-for-solo-piano-by-british-women-composers-artalinna/ Works for Solo Piano by British Women Composers]'', Artalinna ATL-A046 (2025)</ref> Also surviving is a pair of articles in the 1862 ''Musical Times'' entitled ''A Few Words on Piano Playing''.<ref>See e.g. {{OCLC|481610958}}.</ref> Composed but possibly lost also were at least one piano quartet and a cello sonata in addition to the concerto and trio.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMSLP|author=Reinagle, Caroline}}
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