“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: STREICH- UND ZUPFINSTRUMENTE VIOLA VIOLA UND KLAVIER
Item no.: 472037
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 191634
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 606853
Sechs Duette für zwei Frauenstimmen und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 2
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 328518
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 461316
Their Music in History
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 870086
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 686692
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 369877
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671132
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 330509
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1678402
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 393466
Songs by Women Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Audio-CD
Item no.: 313439
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) DREI SINGSTIMMEN DREI SINGSTIMMEN MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Score
Item no.: 207600
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 332606
for: Voice, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 275811
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 656663
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1546515
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1678401
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339403
for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2168
for: Women's choir (SAA) [mixed choir (SAT)] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 143174
Fünf Duette für Sopran, Tenor und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 4
for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 331090
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357319
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357317
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357311
for: 2 voices, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 331088
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 478196
Arie für Sopran und Klavier
Klavierbegleitung von Fanny Hensel Erstveröffentlichung
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 377493
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 793495
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1689400
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 214934
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357312
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357308
Sieben Duette für zwei Frauenstimmen a cappella
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 3
for: 2 voices (SA) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 331089
und Klavier
Chorpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 1546655
Soli, gem Chor und Klavier
Chorpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 373933
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 160058
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1672720
12 Charakterstücke für das Forte-Piano
mit einer Einführung von Christian Thorau
for: Piano
CD
Item no.: 432980
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 761642
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Score
Item no.: 565862
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 376003
"Meine Seele ist stille"
Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 393477
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1546525
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1546521
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 349296
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