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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 Most of these were unpublished in her lifetime.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 (

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String Quartet in E-Flat Major: I. Adagio ma non troppo

Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet

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“Neue Liebe, Neues Leben” (Goethe)

Fanny Mendelssohn

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“Im Herbste” (Geibel)

Fanny Mendelssohn

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Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11: I. Allegro molto vivace

The Nash Ensemble

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String Quartet in E-Flat Major: II. Allegretto

Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet

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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

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

Single • 2025

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Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 2

EP • 2020

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Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 8

EP • 2020

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Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 6

EP • 2020

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Mendelssohn - Venetian Gondola Song Op. 30 No. 6

Varyk • 142K views

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Aletheia Piano Trio performs Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor, op. 11 I Allegro molto vivace

Fei-Fei, pianist • 27K views

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Barcarolle opus 30 n°6, F. Mendelssohn

PiaNicolas • 21K views

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

Joel Hastings • 787K views

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

Kateryna Kasper • 63K views

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Fanny Mendelssohn: Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 8 (Virginia Eskin, pianist)

noochinator2 • 31K views

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

Rosy Ge • 31K views

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ABRSM 2023 & 2024 - Grade 6 Piano exam - B:3 Venetianisches Gondellied ~ Felix Mendelssohn

Master Keyz • 108K views

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

Florence Robineau • 71K views

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

Paul Barton • 35K views