Fanny Mendelssohn

Fanny Cäcilie Hensel née Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, also known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy. 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 Most of these were unpublished in her lifetime.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. Her younger brother Felix Mendelssohn, also a composer and pianist, shared the same education and the two developed a close relationship. Owing to her family's reservations and to social conventions of the time about the roles of women, six of her songs were published under her brother's name in his Opus 8 and 9 collections. In 1829, she married artist Wilhelm Hensel and, in 1830, they had their only child, Sebastian Hensel. In 1846, despite the continuing ambivalence of some of her family (but not her husband) toward her musical ambitions, Fanny Hensel published a collection of songs as her Opus 1. She died of a stroke in 1847, aged 41. Since the 1990s, her life and works have been the subject of more detailed research. Her Easter Sonata was inaccurately credited to her brother in 1970, before new analysis of documents in 2010 corrected the attribution. The Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum opened on 29 May 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.

Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn - Sämtliche Klavierwerke Vol.1 - 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Her Sonic Realm - The Creative Legacy of Women in Music - 2026-03-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Fanny Mendelssohn: Das Jahr (The Year) - 2026-03-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Winter Adagios - 2026-01-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Calm Classics - Soundscape of Serenity - 2025-09-22T00:00:00.000000Z

"La tempesta di mare" - Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, Telemann, Beethoven - 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Lieder - 2025-02-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Fanny Mendelssohn: Dein ist mein Herz - The Art of Breathlessness (Arr. for Flute by Claudio Ferrarini) - 2024-11-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Fanny Mendelssohn: Das Jahr - 2024-11-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Fanny Mendelssohn: Mélodies, Op. 4 & Op. 5 - Pastorella - 2024-11-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Fanny Hensel piano pieces - 2024-10-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Forgotten Spring: The Early Lieder of Fanny Hensel - 2024-09-24T00:00:00.000000Z

A Woman's Hand, Vol. 2 - 2024-09-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Mendelssohn - 2024-08-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Das Jahr, H-U 385 - 2024-04-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Das Jahr, H-U 385 - 2024-04-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Fanny Mendelssohn: Lieder for Piano - 2024-01-27T00:00:00.000000Z

Mendelssohn: Charakterstücke - 2024-01-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Mendelssohn: Charakterstücke - 2024-01-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Fanny Mendelssohn Lieder [Lan Rao (Sopran) Micael Gelius (Klavier)] - 2024-01-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Hensel: Lieder - 2023-06-23T00:00:00.000000Z

Hensel: Lieder - 2023-06-23T00:00:00.000000Z

When in Silence of the Soul - 2023-05-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Works - 2022-11-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Works - 2022-11-18T00:00:00.000000Z

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