Although best known as the sister of Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47) was a virtuoso pianist and a composer of considerable merit in her own right. Her oeuvre of more than 400 compositions remained largely unknown for more than a century after her untimely death, and her newly r[...]

Hinter einigen Werken Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys steckt seine Schwester Fanny. Sie war Ideenlieferantin und kritische Begutachterin der Kompositionen ihres Bruders und wohl die bedeutendste Komponistin des 19. Jahrhunderts.[...]