“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.
Sechs Duette für zwei Frauenstimmen und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 2
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 328518
für Gesang und Klavier
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Item no.: 433206
Unbekannte Werke der Klassik und Romantik 95
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 461316
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 686692
Their Music in History
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 870086
24 Songs by Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: 12 Gesänge op. 8 and 12 Lieder op. 9
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 369877
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671132
Duett für Sopran und Tenor
op. 8, Nr. 12
for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2168
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1546515
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1678402
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1678401
Ausgewählte Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier
Erstveröffentlichungen
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 656663
für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Klavier
Partitur
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) DREI SINGSTIMMEN DREI SINGSTIMMEN MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Score
Item no.: 207600
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 330509
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 332606
for: Women's choir (SAA) [mixed choir (SAT)] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 143174
Sieben Duette für zwei Frauenstimmen und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 1
for: 2 voices, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 331088
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339403
Fünf Duette für Sopran, Tenor und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 4
for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 331090
Dramatische Szene
for: Voice, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 275811
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 393466
op. 8, No 4 Presto (Wanderlied)
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357319
op. 8, No 2 Andante con espressione
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357317
op. 2, No 4 Allegro molto vivace
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357311
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 793495
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 1689698
Arie für Sopran und Klavier
Klavierbegleitung von Fanny Hensel Erstveröffentlichung
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 377493
Kantate für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Erstveröffentlichung
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 214934
für Soli, Chor Orchester
Klavierauszug
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Piano reduction
Item no.: 473249
Sieben Duette für zwei Frauenstimmen a cappella
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 3
for: 2 voices (SA) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 331089
Sechs Gesänge für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1689400
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 478196
op. 6, No 1 Andante espressivo
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357312
op. 2, No 1 Andante
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357308
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 761642
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
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 564176
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
for low voice and piano
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 349296
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733023
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1678397
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