“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.
op. 6, No 2 Allegro vivace
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357313
Vol. 1: 1820–1827
Ausgewählte Lieder
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 376002
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Partitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 371987
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 235863
on poems by Wilhelm Müller for medium voice (mezzo-soprano/baritone) and piano
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 446799
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795525
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1546518
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1678400
"Hörst du nicht die Bäume rauschen" (Joseph von Eichendorff)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 675031
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1546517
op. 2, No 2 Andante con moto
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357309
Fanny und Wilhelm Hensels italienische Reise
Mit dem Faksimile der Bildseiten aus dem "Reise-Album" 1839-1840
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 472519
Nach den Quellen zum ersten Mal hrsg. von Hans-Günter Klein
Book
Item no.: 472515
Vier Duette für Sopran, Tenor (Bariton) und Klavier
Gesamtausgabe in 5 Bänden – Band 5
for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 331091
(Set)
Postcard
Item no.: 377126
SAM-Klang
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1532676
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Voice, piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 286096
for: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 301198
taken from the collection "Twelve Clavier pieces" by Fanny Hensel née. Mendelssohn Bartholdy (first edition) (Hellwig-Unruh)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1632979
from: The Year
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1566174
Weltliche a cappella Chöre von 1846 Band 5
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043668
op. 8, No 1 Allegro moderato
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357316
für Sopran und Klavier
Partitur
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Score
Item no.: 637103
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 393474
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
Weltliche a cappella Chöre von 1846
für gem Chor
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR A CAPPELLA WELTLICH ALBEN
Item no.: 482575
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Klavierauszug
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 345210
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357307
für großes Orchester
Partitur
for: ORCHESTERWERKE GROßES ORCHESTER OHNE SOLISTEN
Score
Item no.: 275746
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 275738
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 286095
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel Band 5
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE KLAVIER KLAVIER ZWEIHÄNDIG
Item no.: 273534
Six songs for soprano, alto, tenor and bass
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1689195
Urtext
for: 2 violins, viola, cello
Partitur, Stimmensatz, Urtextausgabe, Digitalartikel (AODP)
Item no.: 1639732
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 331784
Volume 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565739
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1565291
für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 393463
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565720
Weltliche a cappella Chöre von 1846 Band 5
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043684
Recent Researches In The Music Of The 19th + Early 20th Centuries~Bd 22
for: Piano
Item no.: 350254
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Piano
Spielpartitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 1615875
Weltliche a cappella Chöre von 1846 band 4
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043714
Weltliche a cappella Chöre von 1846 Band 4
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043695
Klaviertrio
Unbekannte Werke der Klassik und Romantik 95
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Single part Violin
Item no.: 622668
für Soli (SSSAA), Frauenchor und Klavier
Chorpartitur (dt)
for: CHORMUSIK FRAUEN- + KINDERCHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 477215
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1639790
Chorpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 1546690
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