Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel are considered possibly the most important female figures of the Romantic Era. Both women were friends living with the struggles of trying to make a name for themselves as musicians and composers while living in the shadows of their famous male family me...
Carl Klingemann (1798-1862) was secretary to the Hanoverian legation in Berlin, and from 1828 a diplomat at the Court of St James's. It was he, together with the pianist Ignaz Moscheles, who introduced Mendelssohn to London life in 1829, and he accompanied Mendelssohn on his famous tour o...
vgl. die neuere Interpretation dieses Sachverhalts von Sarah Rothenberg,‘Thus far but no farther’: Fanny Mendelssohn’s Unfinished Journey, in:The Musical Quarterly77, 1993, S. 691–692; ArticleGoogle Scholar Marianne Kirlew,Famous Sisters of Great Men, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York 190...
While Hensel has finally stepped out of the shadow of her famous brother, Felix Mendelssohn, as scholars have begun to study her life and writings, her music has remained surprisingly underexamined. This collection places Hensel's music at the center, focusing on the genre that not only made ...
Fanny Hensel (1805–1847), the sister of the famous composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), received the same musical education as her brother, was also an excellent pianist and wrote music throughout her life. The social conventions of the time, which saw women ...
Fanny Mendelssohn was a German pianist and composer, the eldest sister and confidante of the composer Felix Mendelssohn. Fanny is said to have been as talented musically as her brother, and the two children were given the same music teachers. Felix readi