Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s sister, wrote music throughout her life. She originally published her songs and piano pieces under her brother’s name, but soon began to use her own name instead, confiding to her diary that “I cannot deny that the joy I derive in publishing my own music also increases my good humour”. Luckily for us, her great-granddaughter Fanny Kistner-Hensel gave G. Henle Verlag access to a previously unpublished selection of 11 piano pieces, and edited them herself from the autographs. After some early pieces focussing on piano instruction there follows a chronological sequence of personal character pieces such as the Notturno in g minor and “Abschied von Rom” [Departure from Rome], composed from the mid-1830s.
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Fanny Zippora Mendelssohn was born on 14 November 1805 in Hamburg, where her father was director of Gebr. Mendelssohn & Comp. This banking house, founded on 1 January 1805, was a branch office of J. & A. Mendelssohn, the bank which Abraham Mendelssohn had established in Berlin in 1804 with his elder brother Joseph. In December 1804 Abraham married Lea Salomon, a granddaughter … 계속
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Fanny Hensel
This composer and pianist left behind a substantial oeuvre of around 460 compositions, predominantly songs and compositions for piano as well as several works of chamber music, choral music, cantatas, and an overture. Within the private milieu of the salons held in her parents’ home, she performed (and conducted) her compositions herself; they are in no way inferior to those of her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
| 1805 | Born in Hamburg on November 14, the eldest child of the banker Abraham Mendelssohn. |
| 1811 | Moves to Berlin. |
| 1816 | The children are baptized in the Evangelical Reformed church. Piano instruction from Marie Bigot during a stay in Paris, from Ludwig Berger in Berlin. |
| 1819 | Lessons in composition from Carl Friedrich Zelter, together with Felix; composition of songs. |
| 1820 | Joins the Sing-Akademie, led by Zelter, along with Felix and their younger sister Rebecka. |
| 1821 | First, partly public Sunday concerts take place in the Mendelssohn household. Fanny performs as pianist, later as conductor and composer. From 1831 she assumes leadership of them. |
| from 1825 | Anonymous publication of her own compositions; the songs “Das Heimweh” (1824), “Italien” (1825), and “Suleika and Hatem” (1825) are published in the volumes of her brother’s Op. 8 (1827), “Sehnsucht” (1827), “Verlust” (1828), and “Die Nonne” (1822) in that of his Op. 9 (1830). |
| 1829 | She marries the Royal Prussian court painter Wilhelm Hensel. |
| 1830 | Birth of their only son, Sebastian Ludwig Felix. Cantatas: “Lobgesang” (dedicated to her son), “Hiob” (“Job”) and “Choleramusik” (1831), “Zum Fest der heiligen Cäcilia” (1833). |
| 1831/32 | Concert aria, “Hero und Leander.” |
| 1838 | Offering of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Felix, her only known public performance. |
| 1841 | Piano cycle “Das Jahr” (“The Year”) with pictures by her husband. |
| 1843 | Piano Sonata in G minor, which engages with Beethoven’s works. |
| 1846 | Publication of the “Six Songs for Solo Voice and Piano,” Op. 1, as the first songs published under her own name. “Four Songs for the Piano,” Op. 2, Op. 6 (1847), Op. 8 (1850), counterpart to Felix’s Songs Without Words, with bolder harmonies and greater in scale. |
| 1847 | Death in Berlin on May 14 from a stroke during rehearsals for a Sunday concert. |