“If Fanny had been a man, she would have been one of the greatest composers of the 19th century.” Chen Reiss, Opera Singer
Anyone who has experienced the magnificent works of Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) will have no doubt about this statement! And great news… her splendidly versatile works have just been recorded in their entirety! Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore the wide world of Fanny Hensel with Stretta Music today!
Despite her exceptional musical talent, Fanny Hensel had many obstacles in her way during her lifetime, particularly from her own family. Today she is regarded as one of the most important female composers of all time, and one of the most important composers of the Romantic era.
As the older sister of Felix Mendelssohn, she enjoyed the same excellent piano teachers. Her teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter wrote in a letter to Goethe that she played “like a man”, which was considered great praise at the time, but also exemplified Fanny Hensel’s dilemma.
Since it was not appropriate for women to earn money and composer professionally, both her father and her brother were against her composing. During her lifetime, her works were almost exclusively published under her brother’s name. Her many letters show a special form of sibling love, but also a certain jealousy on the part of her brother. After she died suddenly of a stroke in 1847, Felix Mendelssohn suffered a nervous breakdown and died just six months later.
Fanny Hensel’s Diaries and Fanny Hensel’s Letters to Her Family from Rome, Venice and Paris are well worth a read.
As an outstanding pianist, Fanny Hensel composed a great deal for piano and many art songs.
Musicologist Angela Mace sees Fanny Hensel’s song compositions as much more experimental and “chromatically adventurous” than her brother’s, and found that it enabled her “to deliver the emotional charge of a longer work in a single-sided song”.
In 1965, her complete works were transferred from the family’s property to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Since then, musicologists have dealt much more intensively with Fanny Hensel, and it is only today that her extraordinary musical work is beginning to be fully recognised.
Both Fanny and her brother Felix were compositional prodigies. In 1819, they both set the same text to music for their father’s birthday - “You tones, sway happily through the strings”. Felix was ten, Fanny fourteen. On comparing the two versions, one gets an impression of their early talents, and they way the two siblings worked. Fanny’s song can be found in the selection Where are you from?, and Felix’s version is included in Mendelssohn Songs: Volume 3.
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 601583
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel Band 4
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 273533
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 200191
für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 393464
Dover Piano And Keyboard Editions
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 134730
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 485861
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401374
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 686692
Their Music in History
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 870086
Weltliche a-cappella Chöre von 1846
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1672390
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1546519
Klavier
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Item no.: 560477
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 377883
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565740
Weltliche a cappella Chöre von 1846 Band 5
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043684
Recent Researches In The Music Of The 19th + Early 20th Centuries~Bd 22
for: Piano
Item no.: 350254
für Soli (SSSAA), Frauenchor und Klavier
Partitur (dt/en)
for: CHORMUSIK FRAUEN- + KINDERCHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 275818
für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 393459
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 133393
Breitkopf Urtext
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 286973
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1546525
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1546521
und Klavier
Chorpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 1546655
für gem Chor und Harfe
Partitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Score
Item no.: 565862
"Meine Seele ist stille"
Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 393477
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 160058
Soli, gem Chor und Klavier
Chorpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 373933
Sechs Gesänge für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1672720
Vol. 2: 1828-1844
Ausgewählte Lieder
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 376003
12 Charakterstücke für das Forte-Piano
mit einer Einführung von Christian Thorau
for: Piano
CD
Item no.: 432980
for low voice and piano
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 349296
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 628401
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 393457
Weltliche a-cappella Chöre von 1846
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 165647
Präludium F-Dur, Postludium G-Dur
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 431097
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 687552
für Singstimmen (S/A) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
for: 2 voices
Score, Parts
Item no.: 275812
Erstveröffentlichung
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 275820
Das Werk
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 214875
für Sopran, Alt, Bariton und Klavier
for: 3 voices, piano
Score
Item no.: 377884
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 180972
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Chorpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 373935
12 Gesänge op.8 / 12 Lieder op.9
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 349295
Volume 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565739
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1565291
für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 393463
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565720
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