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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music - Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
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INTRODUCTION
Had Madame Hensel been a poor man’s daughter, she must have become known to the world … as a female pianist of the very highest class.
To this forthright observation by the English music critic Henry Chorley we might well append and composer
(Mendelssohn’s Sister and Mother,
in W. A. Lampadius, Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, trans.W. L. Gage, London, 1865, p. 185). Indeed, Fanny Hensel (1805–1847) is now generally regarded as one of the most talented and productive women musicians of the nineteenth century. Like her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), she was a child prodigy; at age thirteen, Fanny performed from memory twenty-four preludes from J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and by age nineteen, she finished her thirty-second fugue, an accomplishment dutifully reported to Goethe by her composition