Fanny Mendelssohn was a truly great composer, but she faced an almost overwhelming set of obstacles to getting her work published. Fanny Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on 14 November 1805 and learned ...

A new documentary sheds light on the ground-breaking composer Fanny Mendelssohn’s life, works, and legacy, told through her own words. Composer and pianist Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the 19th ...

Mercury Studios, the production company behind recent Abbey Road Studios doc “If These Walls Could Sing,” have unveiled their new feature, about composer Felix Mendelssohn’s genius sister Fanny.

Sister of the celebrated Felix, Fanny’s own prodigious gifts were kept as quiet as possible and long remained unknown. A new film, by Fanny’s direct descendent, tells her story To read the family’s ...

At Buckingham Palace in 1842, the German composer Felix Mendelssohn found himself confessing to piracy. Queen Victoria, a great admirer of his music, announced her intention to sing her favorite of ...

Vibrant performances of works by the Mendelssohns prove Fanny’s chamber music can stand up alongside any of the period Is it time for Fanny Mendelssohn’s music to become consciously uncoupled from ...

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Felix Mendelssohn, the famed, wildly prolific 19th-century composer. But what about Fanny? This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny ...

Imagine learning all of Bach’s 48 preludes and fugues by heart and being told, “that’s cute.” You’d smash your instrument, and the interlocutor in rage. Well, that’s precisely what happened to Fanny ...

A piano sonata by German composer Fanny Mendelssohn is being performed in Britain for the first time, 140 years after it was written. The work was once thought to be by her brother, Felix. A sonata ...

Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartets in A and F minor, the one an astonishing response to the challenge of late Beethoven, the other an outpouring of anguish after his sister Fanny’s death, are, for me, among ...

She grew up studying music with her brother, Felix, and showed considerable talent, however was discouraged from pursuing music as a vocation by her father because she was a woman. Mendelssohn ...