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Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847),[1] later Fanny [Cäcilie] Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German composer and pianist from the Romantic era. She grew up in Berlin, Germany and received a thorough musical education that was started by her mother and completed by Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter. Her brother Felix Mendelssohn, also a composer and pianist, shared the same education and the two developed a close relationship. Due to social expectations for women at the time discouraging the publication of her compositions, a number of her works were published under her brother's name in his Opus 8 and 9 collections. In 1829, she married painter Wilhelm Hensel and had a single child, Sebastian Hensel. In 1846, she broke with gender norms and published a collection of songs as her Opus 1. The next year, she suddenly died of a stroke.
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Born | 14 November 1805 Hamburg, Germany |
Died | 14 May 1847 Berlin, Germany |
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Spouse | Wilhelm Hensel |
Children | 1 |
She composed over 460 pieces of music, including a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, over 125 pieces for the piano, and an excess of 250 Lieder, most of which went unpublished in her lifetime. Details about her life and work have been identified since the 1990s. Her Easter Sonata was inaccurately credited to her brother in 1970, before analysis of new documents in 2010 corrected the error.
The Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum opened on May 29, 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.