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The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn

By: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

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The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn

By: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47), pianist and composer, maintained a prolific and witty correspondence with her younger brother Felix over the course of approximately 25 years, which is here presented in English translation, with the original German for reference. As the leader of a vibrant salon, Hensel deploys her critical prowess to describe Berlin musical life, including its conservative institutions and personalities, as well as to evaluate Felix's works-in-progress in detail. We also learn about Hensel's own compositions, her attitudes toward herself as a composer, and the significance of Felix's views on the formation of those attitudes. Hensel's letters provide a fascinating glimpse into the problems and challenges facing gifted women musicians in the nineteenth century. The 150 letters are drawn from the Green Books collection of letters addressed to Felix Mendelssohn, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Reviews-These letters reveal Fanny Mendelssohn to be a thoroughly fascinating individual, one whose special relationship to Felix would be enough to guarantee the interest of the documents. But we soon become engrossed with Fanny herself, as composer, as critic, as musical commentator and figure in the musical life of Berlin. To watch this world through her eyes is to watch it come alive through the wisdom, wit, and grace of a remarkable person. Citron has a gift for rendering the substance and spirit of these letters into charming and effective English prose that preserves something of the formality of nineteenth-century discourse together with the passion and spirit of Fanny Mendelssohn. Philip Gossett ...reading this volume is a pleasure, not just a musicological duty. Clifford Bartlettthe volume contains penetrating and highly scholarly critical commentaries and is a valuable addition to mendelssohniana. J.R. Belanger, Choice, April 1988

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Pendragon Press

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0918728525

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9780918728524

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Masterwork Vocal Collection (Lieder) for Low Voice

By: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,John Glenn Paton

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Masterwork Vocal Collection (Lieder) for Low Voice

By: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,John Glenn Paton

From the Mendelssohn archive in Berlin come these sixteen never-before-published Romantic lieder by Fannie Mendelssohn Hensel. These inspired compositions have the balanced legato of the classical composers and the sensitive feeling and colorful harmonies of the dawning Romantic era. Includes historical background , idiomatic and word-by-word translation of foreign texts and transcriptions into the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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Alfred Music

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1470629054

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9781470629052

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music

By: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music

By: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

This first American publication of Hensel's important early works features Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, Op. 2, Op. 6, and Op. 8, and 2 selections from Six Mélodies pour le Piano, Op. 4 and Op. 5.

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Courier Corporation

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0486171574

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9780486171579

The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn

By: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

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By: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

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The Education of Fanny Lewald

An Autobiography

By: Fanny Lewald

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The Education of Fanny Lewald

An Autobiography

By: Fanny Lewald

The Education of Fanny Lewald is the autobiography of the most popular and prolific German woman writer of her period (1811-1889). The author of more than fifty books of fiction, travel memoirs, and articles about current events, Lewald was a friend or acquaintance of many of the prominent intellectual, artistic, and political figures of nineteenth-century Europe. Her autobiography is clearly and engagingly written. We see her developing from the bright, oldest child of a middle-class Jewish family in East Prussia into a successful writer and financially independent woman. And we see her struggles with a patriarchal society along the way.

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State University of New York Press

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1438410689

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9781438410685

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The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music

The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn

The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn

The Education of Fanny Lewald

The Education of Fanny Lewald

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