SKU: CA.316650
ISBN 9790007154455. Key: A minor / a major. Language: German. Text: von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
SKU: CA.7010046
ISBN 9790007228637. Key: C major. Language: German.
Score available separately - see item CA.7010000.
SKU: BR.SON-419
ISBN 9790004803059. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The year 1828 was a Durer Year (300th anniversary of death), and the Berlin Durer Festival was looking for a suitable composer to write the festival cantata. The renowned Carl Friedrich Zelter turned down the offer and recommended his pupil instead, the 18-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He accepted, and, within a few weeks, the Festmusik MWV D1, was finished, his first full-scored sacred vocal work. Mendelssohns Festmusik subsequently fell into oblivion despite its much-applauded world premiere. The specific context and the rather wooden libretto most likely proved too prohibitive even though the young composer had given his best. This can now be confirmed for the first time by consulting the new printed edition.
SKU: CA.9000110
ISBN 9790007229948. Key: F major. Language: German. Text: von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Score available separately - see item CA.9000100.
SKU: CA.317340
ISBN 9790007154929. Key: B flat major. Language: German. Text: von Fallersleben, Hoffmann. Text: Hoffmann von Fallersleben.
SKU: CA.4084018
ISBN 9790007162481. Key: E major. Language: German. Text: von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
May also be sung a whole tone lower. Score available separately - see item CA.4084000.
SKU: HL.49001579
ISBN 9790001018289. German.
SKU: HL.49001580
ISBN 9790001018296. German.
SKU: HL.49001585
ISBN 9790001018364. German.
SKU: BR.CHB-5234-02
ISBN 9790004411537. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German.
Madame Hensel, Mendelssohn's sister, whose eyes speak intelligence and profundity''. This diary entry made by Robert Schumann in June 1843 succinctly but fittingly characterizes Fanny Hensel, without a doubt the most significant woman composer of the 19th century. Born in Hamburg on 14 November 1805, she was the eldest sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. In 1829 she married the Prussian court painter and occasional poet Wilhelm Hensel (1794-1861). After her sudden death in Berlin on 14 May 1847 as a result of a stroke, the music journalist Ludwig Rellstab poignantly wrote that she shared the brotherhood ef talent with her famous sibling.Fanny Hensel was given the same excellent and comprehensive musical training as her precocious brother, including composition lessons with Goethe's friend Carl Friedrich Zelter. Felix and Fanny not only loved each other tenderly, but they also maintained an intensive, life-long exchange of ideas which proved musically profitable to both of them. However, it was only in 1846 that Mendelssohn gave up his resistance to Fanny's publication plans. And so, just shortly before her death, she was able to publish a carefully selected sample of her songs and piano pieces.Not only these pieces, but also a few orchestral and chamber-music works (e.g. the String Quartet in E flat major, KM 2255) and, in particular, choral music occupy an important position in her oeuvre. Most of her choral works were written in 1846, and she was able to rehearse them with the chorus she conducted at the famous Sunday Concerts in the Mendelssohn home. She had six of these choral songs published in a revised version under the title Gartenlieder Op. 3 by the Berlin music publisher Bote & Bock. The title of the Gartenlieder brings to mind Mendelssohn's well-known Lieder im Freien zu singen (Opera 41, 48, 59; ChB 4763-4780), published before 1846. But, as far as the quality of their melodic writing, the compositional technique, and the choice of texts are concerned, as well as the perfect balance between folk-like simplicity and polished design, they are as outstanding as the works of her brother.Fanny Hensel's choral works not only stand up to comparison with any of the rich and varied choral works of the Romantic era - they also rank among the best. Very likely to become hits! (Musica).