Fanny Hensel

The Other Mendelssohn
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-936639-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music, and her struggle to emerge as a publicly recognized composer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Todd, R. Larry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassik (ca. 1750-1830)
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations

- Acknowledgments

- Note On the Website

- Genealogical Tree of the Itzig and Mendelssohn Families

- Preface

- I. Fugal Fingers (1805-1818)

- II. Musical Ornaments (1819-1821)

- III. Sibling Rivalry and Separation (1822-1824)

- IV. Leipzigerstrasse No. 3 (1825-1828)

- V. Becoming Frau Hensel (1828-1830)

- VI. Secret Aspirations (1830-1833)

- VII. Youthful Decrepitude (1834-1835)

- VIII. Demonic Influences (1836-1839)

- IX. Italian Intermezzo (1839-1840)

- X. Domestic Tranquility (1840-1842)

- XI. The Joys of Dilettantism (1843-1845)

- XII. Engraver's Ink and Heavenly Songs (1846-1847)

- Epilogue

- Abbreviations

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Index of Fanny Hensel's Compositions

- General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Recognized in the New Yorker as "Mendelssohn's most authoritative biographer," R. Larry Todd is Arts and Sciences Professor at Duke University. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the National Humanities Center, he is the author of Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, named Best Biography in 2003 by the Association of American Publishers. He has recently returned to his pianist roots and released his first CD, of Mendelssohn's complete cello works, with internationally acclaimed cellist Nancy Green for JRI Recordings.