Fanny Mendelssohn [Hardcover]

Francoise Tillard (Author), Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Composer)

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Hardcover: 402 pages
Publisher: Amadeus Press; Hardcover edition (Mar 1 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0931340969
ISBN-13: 978-0931340963
Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 916 g

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Fanny Mendelssohn (1805^-47), like her brother Felix (1809^-47), was a precocious musician who trained with the best teachers. Her parents believed, however, that a woman must devote body and soul to home, family, and motherhood. Her hopes for a musical career thus dashed, Fanny became Felix's confidante. Enter painter and poet Wilhelm Hensel (1794^-1861), who met Fanny in 1821 and, eight years later, married her. Fanny continued composing pieces, including settings of Hensel's poems, that she performed at Sunday afternoon musicales in the couple's apartment in the Mendelssohn home. An 1839 trip to Rome revived her spirit for music. She surrounded herself with French composers: Gounod, Berlioz, and Massenet, from whom she learned the meaning of liberty. In 1845, she began publishing her music. She issued 12 collections by the end of her life, by which time she saw herself as a woman dilettante, "the most alarming creature that can be imagined." Telling her story, Tillard tells that of the Mendelssohns, too, because much of Fanny's life is revealed in their correspondence. Alan Hirsch

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This is the first English-language biography of Fanny Mendelssohn, the older sister of Felix Mendelssohn and a gifted composer and pianist in her own right. Under pressure to neglect her talents in favor of her brother, Fanny stifled her career, and most of her 400 compositions have only recently become known. HARDCOVER

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5.0 out of 5 stars Une lacune comblée !, Sep 21 2009

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En parcourant les quelques ouvrages dont je dispose sur son frère Félix, jamais je n'avais assez de détails sur elle. Cet ouvrage, traduit du fran�ais (un régal dans cette langue), répare cette lacune. Un texte indispensable ! Un document pertinent, magnifiquement rédigé et bien documenté.

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Important contribution to the revelation of Fanny Mendelssohn's place in the lieder tradition. Having lived in the shadow of her more famous brother, she is gradually becoming known; her lieder are beautiful and her life most interesting.

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