Caroline Reinagle

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. 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 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.

In 1846 Also surviving is a pair of articles in the 1862 Musical Times entitled A Few Words on Piano Playing. Composed but possibly lost also were at least one piano quartet and a cello sonata in addition to the concerto and trio.