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Fanny Caecilie Mendelssohn Hensel
Born: 14th November 1805, Hamburg, Germany
Died: 14th May 1847, Berlin, Germany
Nationality: German
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, later known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and as Fanny Hensel. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quartet, a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for solo piano, and over 250 lieder. Most of these were unpublished in her lifetime. Although lauded for her piano technique, she rarely gave public performances outside her family circle.
She grew up in Berlin and received a thorough musical education from teachers including her mother, as well as the composers Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Mendelssohn
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Tim Parker-Langston on Fanny Hensel's Lieder
24th Aug 2023
The tenor and musicologist discusses his mission to make Hensel's complete songs readily available to audiences and performers alike - and explains why her music 'just never stops surprising us'...
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Chamber music from the Mendelssohns
29th Jul 2022
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective performs early works by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, complemented by one of Fanny's last-ever compositions.
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Popular Works: Mendelssohn, Fanny
- Ach, die Augen sind es wieder (11)
- Allegro molto in C minor (5)
- An Suleika (5)
- Bergelust, Op. 10 No. 5 (Text: Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff) (5)
- Capriccio in A flat (5)
- Dämmrung senkte sich von oben (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) (13)
- Das Jahr (The Year) (8)
- Der Eichwald brauset (Schiller) (5)
- Die frühen Gräber, Op. 9 No. 4 (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Klopstock) (5)
- Die Mainacht, Op. 9 No. 6 (Text: Ludwig Hölty) (11)
- Fantasia (6)
- Fichtenbaum und Palme (Text: Heinrich Heine) (9)
- Gegenwart (5)
- Gondellied Op. 1 No. 6 (Geibel) (6)
- Harfners lied (9)
- Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen (Heine) (5)
- Il Saltarello Romano (5)
- Im Herbste Op. 10 No. 4 (Geibel) (8)
- Lieder für das Pianoforte (4), Op. 6 (14)
- Lieder für das Pianoforte (4), Op. 8 (7)
- Mein Liebchen, wir saßen beisammen (5)
- Nach Süden, Op. 10 No. 1 (Text: Anonymous) (5)
- Nachtwanderer Op. 7 No. 1 (Eichendorff) (5)
- Notturno in G minor (14)
- Piano Sonata in G minor (7)
- Piano Trio in D minor Op. 11 (17)
- Prelude in E minor for piano (4)
- Schwanenlied Op. 1 No. 1 (Heine) (9)
- Sechs Lieder, Op. 9 (6)
- Sehnsucht (Goethe) (6)
- Sehnsucht (Schreiber) (5)
- Six mélodies pour le piano, Op. 4 & Op. 5 (4)
- String Quartet in E flat major (16)
- Suleika (Willemer) (5)
- Traurige Wege (5)
- Uber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh (6)
- Verlust (Text: Heinrich Heine) (4)
- Vier Lieder, Op. 2 (7)
- Vorlauf, Op. 10 No. 2 (Text: Nikolaus Lenau) (6)
- Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass, Op. 1 No. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine) (11)
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