Jane Savage

Jane Savage
(b ?London, 1752/3; d Camberwell, London, 9 Nov 1824). English composer, singer and virtuoso keyboard player, daughter of William Savage.

She probably received her musical training alongside her father's pupils: R.J.S. Stevens recalls trying out an early vocal trio of his with ‘Miss Savage’ and her father. She became an accomplished composer of keyboard and vocal music in the galant style typical of the late 18th century. Her music was probably written for the Savage family home, and she seems to have performed only in private. Her cantata Strephan and Flavia takes its text from a collection of poems published by her mother in 1777, and shows careful attention to details of word-painting. Savage published her music at her own expense, shortly before the death of her parents. She was her father's sole heir, her elder brother having already inherited an estate in Yorkshire from their mother. In 1793 she married Robert Rolleston at St George's, Bloomsbury, by which time she seems to have stopped composing.