“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.
Leichte Stücke
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel 6
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 195077
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 601583
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 276605
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 659734
für Soli (SSSAA), Frauenchor und Klavier
Partitur (dt/en)
for: CHORMUSIK FRAUEN- + KINDERCHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 275818
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 393457
Weltliche a-cappella Chöre von 1846
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 165647
für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 393464
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401374
Dover Piano And Keyboard Editions
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 134730
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 485861
Für Akkordeon und Klavier (1823)
Bearbeitung
for: Accordion, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 431098
Nr. 2 aus: Weltliche a-cappella-Chöre von 1846
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1546516
Erstveröffentlichung
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 393456
Item no.: 374974
Songs by Women Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries
for: Voice, piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 275678
Reihe: Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel Band 10
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 615541
Zwölf Charakterstücke für das Forte-Piano
Faksimile, illustrierte Reinschrift mit Zeichnungen von Wilhelm Hensel
for: Piano
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 314794
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 286082
für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 393468
für Singstimmen (S/A) mit Klavierbegleitung
Text: J. W. von Goethe
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 191634
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
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
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1678402
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1678401
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 393466
Sieben Duette für zwei Frauenstimmen und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 1
for: 2 voices, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 331088
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
12 Charakterstücke für das Forte-Piano
mit einer Einführung von Christian Thorau
for: Piano
CD
Item no.: 432980
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Chorpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 373935
Weltliche a-cappella Chöre von 1846
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1672390
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1665005
(Die "Müller-Lieder")
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 552422
for: 1–2 trumpets, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 772041
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1678400
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: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 301198
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 275738
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