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    Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music
    Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music
    Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music
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    Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music

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    Although best known as the sister of Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47) was a virtuoso pianist and a composer of considerable merit in her own right. Her oeuvre of more than 400 compositions remained largely unknown for more than a century after her untimely death, and her newly rediscovered reputation as a composer rests chiefly with her piano music. This volume is the first American publication of her important early works. Reproduced directly from rare first editions, its contents include Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, Op. 2, Op. 6, and Op. 8, in addition to two selections from Six Mélodies pour le Piano, Op. 4 and Op. 5. Introduction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateApr 9, 2013
    ISBN9780486171579
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    Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music - Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

    9780486171579

    INTRODUCTION

    Had Madame Hensel been a poor man’s daughter, she must have become known to the world … as a female pianist of the very highest class.To this forthright observation by the English music critic Henry Chorley we might well append and composer (Mendelssohn’s Sister and Mother, in W. A. Lampadius, Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, trans.W. L. Gage, London, 1865, p. 185). Indeed, Fanny Hensel (1805–1847) is now generally regarded as one of the most talented and productive women musicians of the nineteenth century. Like her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), she was a child prodigy; at age thirteen, Fanny performed from memory twenty-four preludes from J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and by age nineteen, she finished her thirty-second fugue, an accomplishment dutifully reported to Goethe by her composition

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