Fanny hensel biography

21 November 2018, 16:52 | Updated: 21 November 2018, 17:10

She was one of the 19th century’s most brilliant composers – here’s everything you need to know about the wonderful Fanny Mendelssohn

1. Fanny Mendelssohn’s early life

   Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy was born on 14 November 1805.

   She was taught to play the piano by her mother, who in turn had been taught by a student of J.S. Bach’s.

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7. Her link with Bach

   Fanny could play all 24 Preludes from Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier by the time she was 13.

8. Fanny Mendelssohn: something special

   In 1820 she and her brother Felix Mendelssohn joined the Sing-Akademie in Berlin (a music society), directed by the composer Carl Friedrich Zelter.

   Zelter was so impressed with the young Fanny that he wrote a letter to the author Goethe in which he said: “This child really is something special.”

9. Fanny and Felix’s father

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