Fanny Mendelssohn
German pianist and composer (1805–1847)
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She wrote over 450 pieces — a string quartet, a piano trio, cantatas, more than 250 lieder — and almost none appeared under her name while she lived. Six of her songs were published as her brother Felix's work, and her Easter Sonata was still credited to him as late as 1970.
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Fanny Mendelssohn was born in Berlin on 14 November 1805 and trained alongside her younger brother Felix under the same teachers, including Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter. The two became close, but social conventions and family reservations kept her from the public career her talent warranted; she rarely performed outside her family circle, and six of her songs appeared in Felix's Opus 8 and 9 collections under his name. She married artist Wilhelm Hensel in 1829 and had one child, Sebastian, in 1830. In 1846, with her husband's support but lingering family ambivalence, she published a…
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- Sacred Music 12025
- Felix Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht / Vom Himmel hoch / Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Hiob / Gartenlieder2024
- Boulevard des femmes: Music for Soprano & Guitar by Female Composers2023
- Embrace: Songs by Hensel, Liszt, Ullmann, Grieg2022
- Piano Music2022
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