MENDELSSOHN-HANSEL, Fanny – Song ‘Feldlied’ (‘Song of Field Flowers’) – 4 CELLOS

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Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (14th November 1805 – 14th May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, later known both as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and as Fanny Hensel. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quartet, a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for solo piano, and over 250 lieder. Most of these were unpublished in her lifetime. Although lauded for her piano technique, she rarely gave public performances outside her family circle.
Since the 1990s, her life and works have been the subject of more detailed research. Her Easter Sonata was inaccurately credited to her brother in 1970, before new analysis of documents in 2010 corrected the attribution. The Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum opened on 29 May 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.
Most of Hensel’s work after her marriage was on a small scale, songs and piano pieces, though in 1831 for the first birthday of her son Sebastian, she created a cantata, the Lobgesang (Song of Praise).