John David Loder (1788 – 13 February 1846) was an English violinist. He was a member of a musical family in

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; his career, beginning in Bath, developed beyond the city and he was later a professor of the violin at the

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in London.

Life

He was born in Bath in 1788, son of musician John Loder. His brother George Loder, a flautist, was father of

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, a conductor and composer, and

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, a pianist and composer. From 1799 until 1836 he was a member, and for most of the time leader, of the orchestra at the Theatre Royal in Bath. In 1815 Loder became a member of the

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in London. On 12 May 1817 he led the society's orchestra for the first time; the ''Salisbury Journal'' reported: "he acquitted himself in a manner that stamps him at once as a first-rate musician". He played for the society many times between then and 1845. In 1837 he led the orchestra in the second performance in London of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 12 years after the first. From about 1820 to 1835 he had a business in Milson Street, Bath, publishing music and selling musical instruments. He was leader at the Yorkshire music festival in 1825, and soloist at the Gloucester music festival in 1826; he was leader at the

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s from 1826 to 1845. From 1840 he was professor of violin at the

, and from 1841 he lived permanently in Chelsea, London. In 1844 he succeeded

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as leader of the

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Family

His wife, Rosamund Charles Mills, was the stepdaughter of the actor John Fawcett. Loder died at

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, Regent's Park, on 13 February 1846, and was buried at

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. He left a widow, and five sons and two daughters. Three of his sons were musicians:

Edward Loder Edward James Loder (10 July 1809 – 5 April 1865) was an English composer and conductor. His best remembered work is perhaps the 1855 opera ''Raymond and Agnes'', though his most successful opera during his lifetime was ''The Night Dancers''. ...

(1809–1865) was a composer and conductor; Edward's twin brother John Fawcett Loder (1809–1853), a violinist, played in London theatre orchestras, and played the viola in Joseph Dando's string quartet from 1842 until 1853; William Sowerby Loder (1812–1851) studied the cello at the Royal Academy of Music and later played in Bath.

Publications

* '' A General and Comprehensive Instruction Book for the Violin'' (1814): it was regarded as a standard work of instruction for the violin, and passed through many editions * ''A First Set of Three Duets for two Violins'' (1837) * ''The whole Modern Art of Bowing'' (1842)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Loder, John David 1788 births 1846 deaths 19th-century classical violinists Academics of the Royal Academy of Music Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery People from Bath, Somerset