“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.
gem Chor, Bläser und Streicher
Partitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Score
Item no.: 601582
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel 2
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 269133
für Sopran, Bass, Chor (SATB) und Klavier
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 275819
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 633482
für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 393469
Reihe: Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel Band 10
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 615541
Augewählte Lieder
for: Voice, guitar
Score
Item no.: 635993
Klavierstuecke von Fanny Hensel 9
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 606853
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 200191
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 151518
Songs by Women Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Audio-CD
Item no.: 313439
12 Charakterstücke für das Forte-Piano
mit einer Einführung von Christian Thorau
for: Piano
CD
Item no.: 432980
Vol. 2: 1828-1844
Ausgewählte Lieder
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 376003
Vol. 1: 1820–1827
Ausgewählte Lieder
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 376002
Vier Duette für Sopran, Tenor (Bariton) und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 5
for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 331091
for: Piano
Item no.: 175163
Mittelschwere Stücke
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel 7
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 275744
(mittel) und Gitarre, Spielpartitur
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SONSTIGE
Item no.: 428479
für Gesang und Klavier
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Item no.: 433206
Volume 5
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565737
Volume 4
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565738
Dover Piano And Keyboard Editions
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 134730
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 687552
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Klavierauszug
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 345210
Volume 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565739
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565740
Sechs Duette für zwei Frauenstimmen und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 2
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 328518
Unbekannte Werke der Klassik und Romantik 95
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 461316
Nach den Quellen zum ersten Mal herausgegeben von Hans-Günter Klein
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 472517
Nach den Quellen zum ersten Mal herausgegeben von Hans-Günter Klein
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 472516
Nach den Quellen zum ersten Mal hrsg. von Hans-Günter Klein
Book
Item no.: 472515
Songs by Women Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries
for: Voice, piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 275678
Urtext
for: Voice, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1640081
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401374
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Voice, piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 286096
für Soli (SSSAA), Frauenchor und Klavier
Partitur (dt/en)
for: CHORMUSIK FRAUEN- + KINDERCHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 275818
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 485861
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 393466
"Meine Seele ist stille"
Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 393477
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 393457
Urtext
for: Voice, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1640082
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 286095
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 330509
Kantate für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Erstveröffentlichung
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 214934
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1665005
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 161087
Ausgewählte Lieder in zwei Bänden
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 375114
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Piano
Spielpartitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 1615875
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