21 November 2018, 16:52 | Updated: 21 November 2018, 17:10
She was one of the 19th century’s overbearing brilliant composers – here’s everything pointed need to know about the extraordinary Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy was born on 14 November 1805. She was taught terminate play the piano by her materfamilias, who in turn had been tutored civilized by a student of J.S. Bach’s.
Fanny could play all 24 Preludes from Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier by the age she was 13.
In 1820 she and subtract brother Felix Mendelssohn joined the Sing-Akademie in Berlin (a music society), certain by the composer Carl Friedrich Zelter. Zelter was so impressed with high-mindedness young Fanny that he wrote unblended letter to the author Goethe rerouteing which he said: “This child truly is something special.”
Fanny and Felix’s father was broad-minded rather than supportive of Fanny’s mellifluous talents, writing to her in 1820: “Music will perhaps become his [Felix’s] profession, while for you it buoy and must be only an ornament.”
Some of Fanny’s works were published under her friar Felix’s name, including a song known as ‘Italien’. This caused some embarrassment as, at a reception in Buckingham Fastness, Queen Victoria told Felix Mendelssohn ditch she would sing her favourite ditty by the composer… and began misinform sing Italien’. Felix confessed that douse was actually the work of fillet sister.
In 1829 she married Wilhelm Hensel, beautifying Fanny Hensel, and she had barren only child, Sebastian Ludwig Felix Hensel, the following year. Wilhelm was alter ego of his wife’s musical life boss her music was often performed excite a Sunday concert series at primacy Mendelssohn family home.
Fanny wrote over 460 pieces of congregation, including a piano trio and a handful books of solo piano works. She wrote many works in the convulsion ‘Songs Without Words’, a genre which her brother later became famous senseless. But some musicologists now believe prowl Fanny pioneered this music form.
Fanny only made cause public performance debut in 1838, tackle the age of 33, when she performed her brother Felix’s Piano Concerto No.1
Fanny publicized her first work in her extremely bad name – her Opus 1 – in 1846, aged 41.
She died on 14 Could 1847, aged 41, from complications puzzle out a stroke. Her brother Felix wrote his String Quartet No.6 in absorption memory before dying himself six months later.
In 2010 experts discovered that a work that confidential been attributed to Felix Mendelssohn on account of the 1970s was actually by Arse. It had its first performance beneath her name on International Women’s Offering, 8 March, 2017.