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chopinski-official · 20 days
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Dobry wieczór. Since it’s International Women’s Day (albeit not strictly), tonight I would like to draw my followers’ attention to the female pianists and composers who were my contemporaries… Apologies for the lengthiness, evidently there is a lot to be covered.
Clara Schumann 1819-1896
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A child prodigy, Clara was taught piano by her father and by thirteen he was taking her on concert tours.
She met Robert Schumann as a child when he came to Leipzig to study law at the university. He took piano lessons from Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck. When she was 18, he proposed to her. They married in 1840.
The virtuoso went on tours with her husband and earn money by performing and teaching. She was also a gifted composer, however most of her time was spent looking after her family, editing Robert’s music and playing. Clara’s compositions include more than 20 piano works, a piano concerto, some chamber music and several songs.
Fanny Mendelssohn 1805–1847
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Composer and pianist, Fanny grew up in Berlin, sharing the same musical education as her brother Felix, with whom she had a close relationship.
Her compositions include a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for the piano and over 250 lieder, most of which were unpublished in her lifetime. Although lauded for her piano technique, she rarely gave public performances outside her family circle.
Owing to her family's reservations and to social conventions of the time about the roles of women, six of her songs were published under her brother's name in his Opus 8 and 9 collections.
Marie Moke 1811-1874
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Marie Moke gave her first concert at the age of eight and by the age of fifteen, she was already known in Belgium, Austria, Germany and Russia as an accomplished virtuoso.
She married pianist and piano manufacturer, Camille Pleyel, but they later separated on account of her promiscuity. Heinrich Heine considered her among the greatest pianists “Thalberg is a king, Liszt a prophet, Chopin a poet, Herz an advocate, Kalkbrenner a minstrel, Mme Pleyel a sibyl, and Döhler a pianist.”
Later on, she created the piano school at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels where she taught from 1848 to 1872.
Louise Farrenc 1804-1875
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A French composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher, she started playing young and had piano lessons with famous teachers such as Moscheles and Hummel. She studied composition privately with Anton Reicha at the Paris Conservatoire, unable to go to composition classes as a woman. By the 1820s she was touring France, giving concerts.
In 1842 she was made Professor of Piano at the Paris Conservatoire where she stayed for 30 years. For a decade she was paid less than the male teachers. Only after the triumphant premiere of her nonet did she demand and receive equal pay. She wrote a wide variety of piano music, but her chamber pieces are considered to be her best work.
Pauline Viardot 1821-1910
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From a musical family (including her older sister, Maria Malibran) Pauline was trained by her father on the piano and in singing.
In her youth she took piano lessons with Franz Liszt and counterpoint and harmony classes with Anton Reicha. However, despite wanting to become a concert pianist, she was directed towards singing by her mother.
Pauline began composing when she was young, but it was never her intention to become a composer. Written mainly as private pieces for her students, her works were still of professional quality and Franz Liszt declared that, with Pauline Viardot, the world had finally found a woman composer of genius. Compositions include her chamber operas Le dernier sorcier and Cendrillon.
Arabella Goddard 1836–1922
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Born in France to English parents, at age six Arabella was sent to Paris to study with Friedrich Kalkbrenner. Aged seven she played for myself and George much to our pleasure.
During the 1848 Revolution her family had to return to England; there, Arabella had further lessons with Lucy Anderson and Sigismond Thalberg. She was known for her ability to play recitals from memory.
Arabella was appointed a teacher at the Royal College of Music in 1883. This was the RCM’s first year of operation and Arabella was its first female professor. She composed a small number of piano pieces, including a suite of six waltzes.
Marcelina Czartoryska 1817-1894
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Born into the aristocratic Polish family, the Radziwiłłs, Marcelina was taught piano by Carl Czerny in Vienna and by myself in Paris. She gave concerts across Europe, with Franz Liszt, Pauline Viardot and Henri Vieuxtemps.
From 1870 she lived in Kraków, where she gave mainly private concerts and, thanks to her artistic connections, contributed to founding Kraków’s Academy of Music in 1888.
Maria Kalergis 1822-1874
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Raised in Saint Petersburg in the home of her paternal uncle, the Tsar's minister of foreign affairs, Maria received a thorough education where she evinced an early musical talent.
She was a student of mine and held salons in Paris whose guests included Liszt, Richard Wagner, de Musset, Gautier and Heine. Later, she became a hostess and a patron of the arts in Warsaw.
She was a co-founder of the Warsaw Musical Institute, now the Warsaw Conservatory and established the Warsaw Musical Society, now the Warsaw Philharmonic. Between 1857 and 1871 she made frequent appearances as a pianist.
On her death, Franz Liszt wrote his Elegy on Marie Kalergi.
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blackswaneuroparedux · 10 months
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It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.
- Fanny Mendelssohn
The Mendelssohns grew up making music together in Berlin at the beginning of the 19th century. Felix, younger by four years, became one of history's most brilliant composers. Fanny, a strong-willed pianist but worried about her worth as a composer, has been neglected. Still, as Felix's career soared and Fanny struggled to publish her pieces, the two remained close. Early on, Fanny helped Felix with structuring some of his pieces. Later, Felix was supportive of his sister but, like their father, discouraged her from actually publishing her music. Fanny wrote a String Quartet in E-flat major in 1834. Despite this and other than playing and conducting in salon settings, Fanny made just one public appearance, as soloist in her brother's First Piano Concerto at a benefit concert. Very little of her music was published in her lifetime, and much of it today remains privately owned.
Fanny died suddenly of a stroke at age 41, in 1847. She died in Berlin of complications from a stroke suffered while leading a rehearsal of a cantata by her brother Felix, "The First Walpurgis Night."
Felix was crushed. You can hear the pain he poured into the String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, completed in September of that year. Felix Mendelssohn's music is always a joy. He was an optimist by nature. But in this quartet you feel immediately that there's something strange. You will be shocked by music with so much power and drama, and violence. Indeed Felix referred to the quartet as his "Requiem for Fanny." He would die two months later, at 38, after a series of strokes. He was buried next to his sister in Berlin in 1847.
Composers can't fully develop their gifts without the freedom of ambition that fuels the required effort. Even Mozart took years to hit his stride. The notion that Fanny Mendelssohn could've become a major composer if she'd been free to pursue that goal isn't far-fetched at all. Indeed it’s tragedy her gifts were never allowed to see the light of day. I like to think Felix probably in part felt the same in not just losing a beloved sister but also a wonderful gifted composer.
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thelonesomepianist · 1 month
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Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn ♡
This is actually my first time doing digital art, drawing with pens and paper always felt more easy to me I guess... But I love them so much so anyway
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cactustaffy · 6 months
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War of the romantics-The Classicists
Commander Felix Mendelssohn
Advisor Fanny Mendelssohn
Aide-de-camp Johannes Brahms
Support officer Clara Wieck
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Radical Romanticist (Rebel) Hector Berlioz
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miss-stickbug · 3 months
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Day 6
Well here it is day 6 of art marathon (I did skip a day tho so I should post the day 7 this evening)
Sorry I was a bit tired for this one (also lost my eraser) so I still hope it is not too bad :
The composers I have drawn today are
1- Chopin! (The best one so far, @chopinski-official I really hope you find it at your taste maestro!)
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Ravel !
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after 2 hours of drawing I got a little bit more tired
After we got Fanny Mendelssohn!
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Bach ! (May have yassified him 😭, also I ate a part of his forhead)
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And finally The best for the end
Tchaikovsky ! 🥳 (@tchaikovsky-pyotr, please be tolerant I had passed 4hours before passing 1 hour on drawing it 🥹)
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soundgrammar · 5 months
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Composer and pianist Fanny Mendelssohn (November 14, 1805 – May 14, 1847), also known as Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel, and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim.
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mendely · 2 years
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It's finally done!
Arcane opening but I remade it in 2D (also composers)
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shostakophile · 8 months
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schumendy?? at this century and era?? yessirrr
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angeryed · 1 year
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Op. 2 no. 5
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Word count: 1541 // 100% sfw // mentions of alcohol
Author’s note: this is my first piece mainly about Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn. Please note that this is not a reflection of their character and should not be regarded as such. This is only an inspiration of their real character personalities as I try to make references to a slight part of what they have truly experienced. I hope you enjoy!
Much feedback is appreciated (´,,•ω•,,)♡
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Fanny was a composer. She was meant to be in the ballroom serving everyone as per custom.
Melodies and harmonies spiralled from her fingertips as easy as her breaths rolled from her nose and fluttered in the air. At three she could compose and at ten, she led concerts day in and day out. As a composer should be, she thought. As a composer should be.
Alongside her training to be a good housewife for her dear Wilhelm Hensel, she played, played, played and played the piano.
Despite how many times the Hensels said, “no, Fanny, greet Wilhelm!” Or “stop playing or else your future will be gone!”Fanny still played as Felix played with her. Leading concerts here and there and avoiding the Hensels’ scrutiny, she had fun and made music right under the Hensels’ noses which only sniffed and snorted.
“Make your child behave like a real woman!” The Hensels said, “or else we might remove everything music related from her life once she’s married!”
“Will do Mrs. Hensel, will do,” Felix answered for his father. “We won’t make you regret choosing her as the bride.”
“I’d rather not!” Mrs. Hensel, Wilhelm’s mother, sniffed. “But one more toe out the line, and she’ll regret even having musical talents to begin with!”
“And don’t you chuckle at me, Felix!” She continued as she snapped the smile from his face. “Once she performs in public alone again, the only thing she’ll ever play in our household is some yarn and string!”
“That was absolutely splendid, Fanny!” Felix said. “Do play again! Play again! Play again!”
She paused; pondering the now silent keyboard before her. Strings still vibrated from the melodies she sang.
“I have other duties to attend to,” Fanny said, flipping her scribbled manuscripts. “I’m a lady, Felix. I have to focus on my actual goal.”
Before her brother frowned again, she continued —
“I’ve a husband to find. I'm going to be a housewife soon.”
“What about your music?” Felix retorted, waving the money Fanny earned from her pieces. “They don’t know you write music and I published them in my name.”
He held Fanny’s hands. “You could continue.”
“I could?”
A letter lined with velvet and class subdued her tears. “For you, Fanny,” Felix whispered. “Be there, tonight.”
“And you will stay at home!”
“Why do I have to do this?” Fanny said. “Why do I—”
“You will keep our name clean!” Father raised a pointed finger at me. Each fibre of it shook until his nails went white. “And you will do as I tell you!”
“I am—”
Felix gazed back at her, twisting the skin of his ring finger.
“You said I could!”
The banging door locked away any way Felix could leave. “You said that!” Fanny shouted. “And look what it did, Felix.” He glanced away.
“Look what it did!”
Fanny raised her voice when Felix grabbed a hold of her music.
“And don’t you dare touch it!”
“What am I to do then?” Felix retorted, biting back his tears. “What am I to do about what is your fault?”
“My fault?” Fanny spat. “My fault?”
“You’re not suited for this, Fanny. You can’t perform concerts anymore,” Felix sat beside Fanny, who cowered on the ground, “and I’m sorry for instilling that hope in you.”
Felix offered Fanny his hand. “Come on, go back to your room with me. You can still compose, just don’t perform like what father—”
“Leave, Felix,” Fanny managed to sniffle through gritted teeth. She hugged her knees as tight as she could until her dress tore at the sides.
“Fanny, get up. Please.”
“And I said leave!”
Before sinking onto the ground again, she glared straight into her brother’s face — the same lips which sang as they played piano, whose tongue lisped against the irregular curvature of complicated words and phrases; and whose gaze, drooped into a glance and later a glimpse when his repertoire got boring, pupils later fluttering as quickly away from the sheet music as his little fingers across the keyboard.
“Fanny, I insist—”
“And I,” she whimpered, controlling the uneven hitches agpt her larynx, “you leave.”
Felix dipped his head before her as he left. “Dinner’s coming in an hour.”
“Do you think she finally listened?”
“Fanny? I hope so…
“You really shouldn’t be so harsh on her, dad. She’s been crying in her room for the past hour.”
“Anyway,” Father said, staring straight at Felix. “She cannot go to the party. Her finacé’s family is there. Think of the scandals! Think of it all!”
In the cobblestone streets leading to the ball, pages of sheet music thumped against the backs of countless composers.
“Need a ride, miss?“
“I’m fine, thank you sir,” Fanny replied, unpacking her bag. “I’m a guest performer. Here’s my invitation.”
“F. Mendelssohn?” The guard replied, holding the card in his hand followed by a crowd of laughs and leers.
“Fanny Mendelssohn, sir,” Fanny added. “I’m the composer of that family. Felix is only my little brother.”
Gazing back up at her, he smiled, “right this way.”
Being led to the piano, Fanny was a composer. Fanny was a composer. Fanny was a composer. She kept reminding herself as she sat on the piano stool.
After all those years of preparing for being a housewife, her hands kept trickling out the music from her mind, bleeding into bandages of sheet music and fluttering up in the air. With every performance, each note folded into the ventricles of people’s hearts as motifs conjoined into their veins and pumped blood in their veins.
“They lived because of me,” Fanny thought. “And they shall again.”
And for that moment, she played. Amidst the crowd with everyone to gape at her, to raise eyebrows and clap at her mumps across the piano as their tears fuelled her encore.
She could.
“I could, I could, I could!” Thought Fanny as her keys laughed, cheered and clapped her mind’s whispers out loud.
After her waltzes and nocturnes, she hastened to bring out her lieders.
Readying them on the stand as the crowd hissed to a silence—
“Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you Fanny Mendelssohn’s piano solo of Italien.”
Her heart prepared for another rush of adrenaline — the rush of laughter and flame, engulfed in all of it like alcohol. Wrapped in music bars, her mind spun again and again—
“Fanny playing Felix’s work?”
“It’s my work,” Fanny answered.
Before the gasps subsided, a virtuosic strum on the piano broke free with her breaths. As she continued her adrenaline reached the brim —
“Stop this!” Some people from the audience spoke. “How do we know you wrote it?”
“I wrote it!” Fanny said. “And I’m so tired of being called over and over and over about what I ought to do!”
She continued playing the piano, even as whispers disrupted the piano’s resonance and jammed her mind with disturbances.
“Fanny Mendelssohn!” A voice shouted before her. “You are to wed the Hensel family! What are you going to do once they find out about this?”
“That I’m a renowned composer? Leave! Father, leave!” Fanny said as she continued her pieces.
A bunch of drunkards in the ball shooed her family away. Satisfied, alcohol pumped through Fanny’s music as she slurred her pieces alongside her voice which often accompanied her lieders.
“See, everyone?” She hiccuped, making a sloppy run across the keyboard in the middle of the night. “Especially you, Mrs. Hensel. I’m to wed your son tomorrow, and look at me! I’m even more talented than my brother, Felix!”
Adding some trills and ornaments to her nocturnes, she shot out again at the Hensel family, a sober blur in the drunken mist and fatigue. “Wouldn’t you want me for a wife, Wilhem darling? Wouldn’t you… wouldn’t you?”
The ground reached for her first after her vomiting on the keyboard. Falling before her fiancé’s feet, spit trickling on her hands, still clutching some manuscripts, she whispered, “wouldn’t you be grateful for such a prodigy?”
In the carriage ride back to the Hensel estate, Wilhelm met Fanny with the same respectful nods and greetings as before.
“I thought, Wilhelm dear,” snorted Fanny, “that you’d hate me for what I did… even I would see how improper I was today.
“Don’t you worry, darling,” replied Wilhelm upon reaching his home. “After taking in consideration your abilities, you’d be best to participate in concerts for the rest of your life.”
The moment those words were uttered out, Fanny, carrying that pungent smell of vomit and liquor, thanked him saying, “I’ve always wanted this… I’ve always… always…”
A fireplace to sit by, and some soup to warm her stomach, still growling for sleep.
“Anything else you need, dear?” Fanny called. “There’s a piano for you down the hall if you want it.”
Fanny searched for the slightest twitch of discomfort in every guest at the ball, carrying a map of the ball if anyone needed it.
“Excuse me, lady, where are the refills?”
“Down the hall to the left, sir,” she replied to a gentleman as she led Felix to the performance room.
Fanny was a composer as everyone said. A composer meant to be in a ballroom, serving the public as per custom.
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I hope y’all liked it (:
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currymuttonpizza · 1 year
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I'm sorry look at these power siblings I'm sorry
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I just learned this recently. I’m reposting this image to try and help others to learn too… #fannymendelssohn #fannyhensel #TeamHensel @henselpushers #mendelssohn #felixmendelssohn
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feerz · 2 years
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Made some of the composers using makówka's picrew!
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I think they turned out pretty cute. Might do some more later
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top 5 composers! :)
Mendelssohn (Felix and Fanny)
Schubert
Tchaikovsky
Chopin
Brahms
This was actually so hard😭
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16strings · 2 days
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Selini Quartet on the occasion of International Women's Day 2022
Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn), String Quartet E flat major, 1st movement Hildegard von Bingen, String Quartet "Three Antiphons", No. 1 "O Virtus Sapiente Julia Purgina, String Quartet "Four Moments Musicaux" No. 3 Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80, 1st movement
Nadja Kalmykova, violin Ljuba Kalmykova, violin Loredana Apetrei, viola Loukia Loulaki, cello
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thedemoskratos · 4 months
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sunset-supergirl · 5 months
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Happy birthday Fanny Mendelssohn
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