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As far as we know the score is not yet published. Fanny Mendelssohn's Piano trio in D minor, Op.
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UPDATE (December 2017): Since the radio program is not available anymore, you can hear another recording here. Listen to a recording of the “Women in Music” concert – live broadcast earlier today by BBC (The sonata starts at 32:40.) Podcast by BBC 3: How Fanny Mendelssohn fought sexism with music Listen to the Easter Sonata!įanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s piano sonata was performed in the “Women in Music” concert at the Royal College of Music in London by Sofya Gulyak – the first female winner of the Leeds Piano Competition. In being among the first female composers to have their works published, Fanny established a precedent for the acceptance of women into a traditionally male. By comparing the handwriting to Fanny’s, analyzing the notes and alterations, and matching the page numbers to a missing section in an album of Fanny’s music, she was able to prove that the sonata was her work. Soprano Chen Reiss writes Discovering the dramatic scene Hero & Leander by Fanny Hensel left me amazed by the richness of colours and invention. American Mendelssohn scholar Dr Angela Mace Christian proved otherwise after gaining brief access to the original, privately-owned manuscript in 2010. When The Easter Sonata was discovered, the manuscript was marked “F Mendelssohn,” and many concluded it was by Felix. “When she was 14, she learnt all of Bach’s 48 preludes and fugues off by heart – which is quite a thing – and her father’s response was to say, ‘That’s all very well, dear but you’re a girl, so you can’t be a musician… You’ve got to stay at home and make the lives of men better.'” She explains to Mishal Husain how, “despite complete discouragement”, Fanny overcame the attitudes of the time to compose 500 pieces of music. “She was an amazing woman, who persevered despite complete discouragement,” her great-great-great granddaughter Sheila Hayman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Mendelssohn excelled in her piano studies, first learning from her mother, whose teacher had studied with Johann Sebastian Bach. She was the eldest of four children, each of whom received the benefits of a musical education from an early age. These days Fanny Mendelssohn is considered to be as worthy of study as Felix, but in her lifetime she was barred from composing by her father, who said a public career was unsuitable to her sex. Fanny Mendelssohn was born in November of 1805 in Hamburg, Germany. Her Easter Sonata was inaccurately credited to her brother in 1970, before new analysis of documents in 2010 corrected the error.As part of its special day of programming for International Women’s Day (8 March 2017), BBC Radio 3 broadcasted a live performance of the Easter Sonata, a major piano work which until recently had been attributed to Felix Mendelssohn, but is now proved to be the work of his sister Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Since the 1990s her life and works have been the subject of more detailed research. The next year, she suddenly died of a stroke. In 1846, despite the continuing ambivalence of her family towards her musical ambitions, Fanny Hensel published a collection of songs as her Opus 1. In 1829, she married the artist Wilhelm Hensel and, in 1830, the two had their only child, Sebastian Hensel. Due to the reservations of her family, and to social conventions of the time about the roles of women, a number of her works were published under her brother's name in his Opus 8 and 9 collections. Her younger brother Felix Mendelssohn, also a composer and pianist, shared the same education and the two developed a close relationship. L’altre dia, mentre Pere Estelrich anava responent la pregunta de la primera de les tres audicions comentades del Festival per a tothom, va trufar la seva exposició amb referències a aquelles petites grans coses que, a mi, personalment, m’interessen. Fanny Hensel was a prolific composer, a skilled pianist, and a respected leader of a flourishing Berlin salon. She grew up in Berlin and received a thorough musical education from teachers including her mother, Ludwig Berger, and Carl Friedrich Zelter. But Fanny wasn’t just a brilliant performer, she was also a composer like her younger brother Felix. She was such an impressive young musician that the composer Carl Friedrich Zelter said of her: This child really is something special. Although praised for her piano technique, she rarely gave public performances outside her family circle. Fanny Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on 14 November 1805 and learned to play the piano when she was a child. She composed over 460 pieces of music, including a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, over 125 pieces for the piano, and over 250 lieder, most of which went unpublished in her lifetime. Fanny Mendelssohn (Novem– May 14, 1847), was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era.