But Fanny wasn’t just a brilliant performer, she was also a composer – like her younger brotherFelix. Unfortunately, Fanny’s father was a firm believer that composition wasn’t a career for women. He said to his daughter: “Music will perhaps become [Felix’s] profession, while foryouit...
In Mendelssohn’s “Reisebriefe” (page 315,) he includes a letter to his sister Fanny dated December 28, 1831, in which he wrote that “Liszt was the most dilettantic of all dilettantes. He played everything from memory, but with the wrong harmonies.” At the time, Liszt was only ...