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Fanny mendelssohn compositions5/25/2023 Musicologist Angela Mace sees Fanny Hensel’s song compositions as much more experimental and “chromatically adventurous” than her brother’s, and found that it enabled her “to deliver the emotional charge of a longer work in a single-sided song”. Her WorkĪs an outstanding pianist, Fanny Hensel composed a great deal for piano and many art songs. After she died suddenly of a stroke in 1847, Felix Mendelssohn suffered a nervous breakdown and died just six months later.įanny Hensel’s Diaries and Fanny Hensel’s Letters to Her Family from Rome, Venice and Paris are well worth a read. Her many letters show a special form of sibling love, but also a certain jealousy on the part of her brother. During her lifetime, her works were almost exclusively published under her brother’s name. Since it was not appropriate for women to earn money and composer professionally, both her father and her brother were against her composing. Her teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter wrote in a letter to Goethe that she played “like a man”, which was considered great praise at the time, but also exemplified Fanny Hensel’s dilemma. Today she is regarded as one of the most important female composers of all time, and one of the most important composers of the Romantic era.Īs the older sister of Felix Mendelssohn, she enjoyed the same excellent piano teachers. Despite her exceptional musical talent, Fanny Hensel had many obstacles in her way during her lifetime, particularly from her own family.
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