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 Most of these were unpublished in her lifetime.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.
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Fanny Hensel: The Collected Songs
20th Sep 2022
For the first time, the Lieder of Fanny Hensel have been collected together in a single edition. Including nearly one-hundred previously unpublished songs, this three-volume edition for high voice and piano has been curated to guide its user through the rich and diverse song compositions of a long-neglected composer. Find out more.
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Popular Works: Mendelssohn, Fanny
- Abend (4)
- Abschied - Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald, WN422 (2)
- Ach, die Augen sind es wieder (2)
- Adagio in E flat major (2)
- Das Heimweh (Robert) (6)
- Das Meer erglanzte weit hinaus (3)
- Die Nonne (6)
- Die Sommernacht (3)
- Fichtenbaum und Palme (Text: Heinrich Heine) (2)
- Frühling Op. 7 No. 3 (Eichendorff) (3)
- Gartenlieder, Op. 3 (4)
- Gartenlieder, Op. 3: No. 6 Im Wald (4)
- Gegenwart (2)
- Gondelfahrt in G minor (2)
- Harfners lied (2)
- Im Herbste Op. 10 No. 4 (Geibel) (3)
- Italien (Text: Franz Grillparzer) (6)
- Kommen und Scheiden (3)
- Lieder für das Pianoforte (4), Op. 6 (2)
- Lockung, WN421 (4)
- Mélodies, Op. 4: No. 2 in C sharp minor (4)
- Morgengruss No. 2, WN433 (2)
- Morgenständchen Op. 1 No. 5 (Eichendorff) (3)
- Morgenwanderung, WN429 (2)
- Nachtwanderer Op. 7 No. 1 (Eichendorff) (3)
- O Herbst, in linden Tagen, WN448 (4)
- Piano Sonata in G minor (2)
- Schilflied, WN445 (4)
- Schöne Fremde, WN437 (2)
- Schweigend Sinkt Die Nacht Hernieder, WN439 (3)
- Sehnsucht (Schreiber) (6)
- Seid gegrüßt mit Frühlingswonne (3)
- String Quartet in E flat major (2)
- Totenklage (2)
- Verlust (Text: Heinrich Heine) (6)
- Villa Medicis in A flat major (2)
- Von dir, mein Lieb, Ich scheiden muss (2)
- Wanderlied Op. 1 No. 2 (Goethe) (4)
- Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass, Op. 1 No. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine) (3)
- Wer will mir wehren, zu singen, WN447 (3)
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