Caroline Reinagle
Caroline Reinagle 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. In the 1840s she had several of her works published and performed, including a piano trio, premiered by 1842 and a piano concerto, published 1842 and performed by her in 1843 at Hanover Square Rooms. 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 The [New Church (Swedenborgian)|Swedenborgian church].In 1846 she married Alexander Robert Reinagle, 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.