“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.
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 601583
for medium voice and piano, score
Summerville, Suzanne, ed
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Item no.: 601584
Sieben Duette für zwei Frauenstimmen a cappella
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 3
for: 2 voices (SA) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 331089
Weltliche a-cappella Chöre von 1846
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 165647
für Singstimmen (S/A) mit Klavierbegleitung
Text: J. W. von Goethe
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 191634
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 276605
Ein Zusammenstellung der Werke, Literatur und Schallplatten (Werkverzeichnis) (Catalog of works )
Book (lexicon)
Item no.: 392916
Fanny Hensels Sonntagsmusiken
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 472518
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 659734
Präludium F-Dur, Postludium G-Dur
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 431097
for: 1–2 trumpets, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 772041
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 235863
für Sopran und Klavier
Partitur
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Score
Item no.: 637103
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 174014
taken from the collection "Twelve Clavier pieces" by Fanny Hensel née. Mendelssohn Bartholdy (first edition) (Hellwig-Unruh)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1632979
Eine Zusammenstellung der Werke, Literatur und Schallplatten
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 130963
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Partitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 371987
für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 393468
Nr.1-5 für Singstimme und Klavier
Nr.6 für gem Chor (SAT) a cappella
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Item no.: 275813
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 628401
Das Werk
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 214875
für Gesang und Klavier
Partitur
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Score
Item no.: 638367
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1640136
Sieben Duette für zwei Frauenstimmen und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 1
for: 2 voices, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 331088
Sechs Gesänge für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1689400
für gem Chor und Harfe
Partitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Score
Item no.: 565862
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 133393
(Die "Müller-Lieder")
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 552422
on poems by Wilhelm Müller for medium voice (mezzo-soprano/baritone) and piano
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 446799
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 268399
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 194112
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel Band 4
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 273533
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel Band 5
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 273534
Erstveröffentlichung
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 393456
von Fanny Hensel Band 3
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 269134
für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 151755
Leichte Stücke
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel 6
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 195077
für Soli, Chor Orchester
Klavierauszug
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Piano reduction
Item no.: 473249
4. Band der Vortragsreihe der Koblenzer Mendelssohn-Tage
Book
Item no.: 372394
for: Cello, piano
Urtextausgabe, Digitalartikel (AODP)
Item no.: 1640085
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 286082
for low voice and piano
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 349296
12 Gesänge op.8 / 12 Lieder op.9
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 349295
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
for: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 301198
Ausgewählte Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier
Erstveröffentlichungen
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 656663
Fünf Duette für Sopran, Tenor und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 4
for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 331090
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 564176
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