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Anna Robena Laidlaw

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who was appointed court pianist to the queen of Hanover in 1840. She toured Europe until 1845 when she returned to London where she lived with her parents until she married in 1852. Her new husband, George Thomson worked in insurance and together they had four daughters.
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In 1834 she played for William IV and the ageing Paganini before returning two years later to play in Warsaw, St Petersburg, Dresden, and Vienna and the following year in Leipzig. There she met
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in Yorkshire in 1819. She was the daughter of Alexander Laidlaw who was a merchant of Scottish descent and his Irish wife Ann Keddy. Her father's family knew Sir
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and she was sent to Edinburgh to study the piano with Robert Müller. She continued her studies in Königsberg and later to London where she studied under
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It was Schumann's idea to reverse her first two names so that it was
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West Bretton
London
British
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
queen of Hanover
West Bretton
Walter Scott
Henri Herz
Robert Schumann
Fantasiestücke
London
Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age"
ISBN
019983931X
"Laidlaw, Anna Robena" 
Lee, Sidney
Dictionary of National Biography
Categories
1819 births
1901 deaths
Musicians from Wakefield
English classical pianists
English women pianists
19th-century classical pianists
19th-century English musicians
19th-century British women musicians
Women classical pianists
19th-century English women musicians
19th-century women pianists

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