Fanny Hensel was born Fanny Mendelssohn on November 14, 1805 – 216 years ago today – in Hamburg, Germany. Fanny’s mother had been taught in the traditional style of the great composer Johann Sebastian ...

Putting my own and others’ sincere bicentenary panegyrics aside, Felix Mendelssohn wrote not just admittedly splendid works, but also sugary Victorian church schmaltz. More than simply belonging to an ...

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There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Felix Mendelssohn, the famed, wildly prolific 19th-century composer. But what about Fanny? This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny ...

Fanny Hensel and Kurt Masur are celebrated in Felix Mendelssohn's last residence in Leipzig, just around the corner of Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus. "And where is Fanny?" – that's the question asked by ...

Sister of the celebrated Felix, Fanny’s own prodigious gifts were kept as quiet as possible and long remained unknown. A new film, by Fanny’s direct descendent, tells her story To read the family’s ...

Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is at the top of a scarily long list of women whose accomplishments have been outshone by titanic men close to them. Fanny was a wunderkind pianist and composer but, ...

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Three upcoming Burlington-area concerts are presenting rarities, each of a different order. The University of Vermont Symphony Orchestra will offer a little-known work by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, a ...

“I was forced to confess that Fanny had written the song, which I found very hard, but pride must have a fall,” Felix wrote home to Berlin. To soothe his wounded pride, he begged the queen to sing one ...

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