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Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, later known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and as Fanny Hensel. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quartet, a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for solo piano, and over 250 lieder. Most of these were unpublished in her lifetime. Although lauded for her piano technique, she rarely gave public performances outside her family circle. She grew up in Berlin and received a thorough musical education from teachers including her mother, as well as the composers Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter. Her younger brother Felix Mendelssohn, also a composer and pianist, shared the same education and the two developed a close relationship. Owing to her family's reservations and to social conventions of the time about the roles of women, six of her songs were published under her brother's name in his Opus 8 and 9 collections. In 1829, she married artist Wilhelm Hensel and, in 1830, they had their only child, Sebastian Hensel. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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String Quartet in E-Flat Major: I. Adagio ma non troppo
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Fanny Mendelssohn: 6 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 1, Schwanenlied (Arr. Lidström for Cello & Piano)
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String Quartet No. 1 in B-Flat Major: I. Andante maestoso - Allegro con brio
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Fantasia in G Minor
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Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11: IV. Finale. Allegretto moderato

Albums

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Classical Hidden Gems, Vol. 8

2025
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Bacewicz: Streichquartette, Nr. 4, Nr. 6, Nr. 7

2012
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Fanny Mendelssohn & Clara Schumann: Piano Trios

1989
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Mendelssohn-Hensel: Chamber Music

2012
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The Echoes of Women - International Women's Day 2024

2024
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Bliss: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

2012
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Original Classics, Vol. 416: Fanny Mendelssohn, Songs of the Soul

2025

Singles & EPs

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Fanny Mendelssohn: 6 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 1, Schwanenlied (Arr. Lidström for Cello & Piano)

Single2025
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Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 2

EP2020
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Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 8

EP2020
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Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 6

EP2020

Videos

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Mendelssohn - Venetian Gondola Song Op. 30 No. 6

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Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte op. 30, No. 6. (Venetian Gondola Song)

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Mendelssohn Venetian Gondola Song Op. 30 No. 6 Joel Hastings, piano

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Mendelssohn "Songs Without Words" Op.19 No.6 "Venetian Boat Song" P. Barton, FEURICH piano

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Camiel Boomsma | Mendelssohn | Venetian Gondola Song Op.30 No.6

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F. Mendelssohn - Chanson de gondolier vénitienne op.30 n°6 - Florence Robineau

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Mendelssohn Songs Without Words Op. 30, No. 6 "Venetian Boat Song"

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Schubert - Auf dem Wasser zu singen - Kateryna Kasper, soprano

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F. Mendelssohn - "Venetian Gondola Song"

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