Hensel’s String Quartet in E-flat Major will be the culminating work on a virtual concert that debuts April 15 on the CSOtv video portal. “It was a pretty easy step to decide that we needed a new book about her,” Todd said. The book emerged out of research that he began in writing his earlier biography of her brother. Larry Todd, author of Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. “She is now recognized as a really important composer of the 19th century, which is as it should be,” said R. That reconsideration has accelerated in recent years with heightened attention on gender disparities in the classical-music world. At last, Hensel is being seen in an entirely new light. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, when archives in the former East Germany became available to researchers, the full scope of her accomplishments has emerged. (Theresa Schlegel, 2020, translated by Th.For most of the 20th century, Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, was often regarded as a musical dilettante - an intriguing footnote to the biography of her much more famous composer-brother, Felix. Fanny (Caecilie)”, in: Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Individuals 11, Cologne et al., 2004, cols. ![]() Krahe, Katrin Reyersbach and Thomas Synofzik, Cologne, 2009, pp. 1: Freundes- und Künstlerbriefwechsel (Robert und Clara Schumann im Briefwechsel mit der Familie Mendelssohn), edited by Kristin R. Ute Büchter-Römer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Hamburg, 2001.Ĭf. Shortly after her passing, Clara wrote to her friend Elise List on 15th June 1847: “ which I am expecting back from the printer any day, and now she is no more! – I and my husband were utterly shocked by this incident]!”Ĭf. The Schumanns had even considered moving to Berlin and were profoundly shocked when Fanny passed away unexpectedly on 14th May 1847. On 4th March 1847, Robert and Clara were invited to a soirée at the house of Fanny Hensel at Leipziger Straße street 3, and Fanny noted in her diary: “ I see the Schumann lady very often, she comes to see me almost daily and I have become quite fond of her].” The reason for the daily visits was certainly not only the portrait which Wilhelm Hensel was making of Clara but also the mutual sympathy between the two women. 50, and Clara gave two concerts at the Singakademie concert hall. A more intensive exchange occurred in February/March 1847, when Clara and Robert Schumann stayed in Berlin – on 17th February, Robert conducted the Berlin premiere of his oratorio Paradise and the Peri, Op. Whilst Clara Wieck had met Felix Mendelssohn as early as 1832 during her concert tour in Paris and also attended his concerts in Leipzig, performed his works and appeared jointly with him, the first meetings between Clara and Fanny, according to Robert Schumann’s household diary, presumably only took place in Leipzig in 1843. Her wide-ranging oeuvre, which is not yet completely explored to this day and is seldom performed, comprises more than 460 titles. 8-11 appeared on the initiative of Wilhelm Hensel. 1-7, in 18, despite her brother’s reservations. Fanny, who composed her whole life, published her own works, Opp. An inspiring journey to Italy which she undertook together with husband in 1839/40, and where Fanny was well received as a pianist and composer, was also reflected in her compositions. In 1829, Fanny married the painter Wilhelm Hensel, who supported her in her artistic work. Nevertheless, the semi-public “Sunday music” events created by her father offered her a musical space which she was able to shape from 1831: There, she would perform as a pianist and conductor in front of larger gatherings in the garden hall of the family estate at Leipziger Straße street 3, and also present her own compositions. Due to familial and societal restrictions, Fanny, in contrast to her brother Felix, was not allowed to live out her talent publicly – a concert career as a pianist or the publication of her compositions were not approved of by her family. ![]() She received an early and very extensive musical education by her family and selected teachers, such as Carl Friedrich Zelter, and was a member of the Berlin Singakademie, a music society (and concert hall). Mendelssohn and her husband, print based on a contemporary drawingįanny Caecilie Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on 14th November 1805 as the daughter of Abraham Mendelssohn (1776-1835) and Lea Mendelssohn, née Salomon (1777-1842). 200th anniversary of Clara Schumann’s birth in 2019įanny Hensel geb.200th anniversary of Robert Schumann’s birth in 2010.First editions and early prints (Brahms Institute in Lübeck).
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