#Fanny mendelssohn free
Fanny Mendelssohn finally felt like a free woman and a musician appreciated by other musicians. In 1839 the Hensel family visited Italy, a journey that would last a year. After her father’s death, Felix influenced her and repressed her ambitions as a musician, but another man, her husband, the painter Wilhelm Hensel, believed in her, encouraged her to compose, helped her to gradually free herself from conditioning and prejudices. She continued to compose because music was the center of her life and the fluency of the compositional technique allowed her to transform the poetic texts of Heine, Goethe, Grillparzer in as many lyrics overflowing with feeling and lyricism. But she suffered that condition because she knew she was sacrifying her identity. Fanny reluctantly accepted these restrictions, but as she would write later, she felt she had to “please” her father and brother and she wouldn’t have done anything disappointing for her loved ones. The father and the brother repeatedly appeared to be opposed to a public display of her talent. Among these, the one entitled Italien was the favorite of Queen Victoria. Some of her lieder would have converged in works 8 and 9 of Felix, but her name didn’t appear alongside that of her brother.
She was a composer and an excellent pianist, but she couldn’t neither perform in public, nor publish her works on her behalf. Back in Berlin, the two brothers were entrusted to Berger for the piano and to Zelter for the composition.įanny Mendelssohn has revealed a remarkable early talent, prodigious memory and compositional capacity since adolescence. Fanny studied music with the same teachers as Felix: first with her mother Lea, then with Marie Bigot in Paris. The parents provided their children with the best teachers and music represented an important discipline for each one. Fanny and her three siblings enjoyed a privileged economic condition and cultural stimuli, as it rarely happened. The family moved to Berlin where they used to spend time with intellectuals, philosophers and scholars, men of science and transient musicians who were honored to participate to the Sunday concerts that the Mendelssohn family organized in their living room. The mother Lea, related to high diplomatic dignitaries, was a good keyboard player. She belonged to a rich and cultured family of Jewish bankers: her parents Abraham and Lea manifested an uncommon mental openness and boasted illustrious relatives: Moses Mendelssohn, mathematician and influential philosopher of German Enlightenment and Dorothea Mendelssohn married to Friedrich von Schiegel, leading representative of German romanticism. Fanny, born in Hamburg on November 14 th 1805, was the eldest of four brothers: Felix, Rebecka and Paul. In the 19 th century, music for a woman was at best an “ornament”, a completion of her education, but it couldn’t become a profession. Her path wasn’t different than a lot of other 19 th century female artists overshadowed because of prejudices and a mentality that relegated them just to a role of wife and mother. This work in the… twitter.Fanny Mendelssohn, sister of Felix, was a musician, pianist and composer ignored until almost to the present day.
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