The Mendelssohn Family (1729-1847)
Author : Sebastian Hensel
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Sebastian Hensel
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Sebastian Hensel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108066283
The two-volume 1881 translation of Felix Mendelssohn's nephew's account of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated musical families.
Author : Sebastian Hensel
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1446547264
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Sebastian Hensel
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Sebastian Hensel
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : Sebastian Hensel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108066273
Sebastian Hensel (1830-98), nephew of the composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47), originally intended this work to be 'not only of the family but for the family', drawing on their letters and diaries. Persuaded by friends to publish his narrative in 1879, Hensel in particular provides a first-hand insight into the lives of his uncle, lionized by the music-loving public of his day, and Felix's beloved sister Fanny (1805-47), herself a talented composer and pianist. Translated from the German revised second edition by Felix's close friend, diplomat Carl Klingemann (1798-1862), this 1881 two-volume collection made available for the first time in English a great deal of valuable source material. Covering the period 1729-1835, Volume 1 charts the family's history from the birth of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn to the death of his son, banker Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who was the father of Felix.
Author : Sebastian Hensel
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1882
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Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : John Michael Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198167235
Since about 1970 there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship and performances concerning the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel. The essays in this book, presenting the findings of three generations of members of the international community of Mendelssohn/Hensel scholars, constitute a compendium of cutting-edge research relating to these two important representatives of nineteenth-century musical culture.
Author : Susan Tomes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 030026657X
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano--but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the modern piano's keys were designed without consideration of women's typically smaller hands. Yet despite their music being largely confined to the domestic sphere, women continued to play, perform, and compose on their own terms. Celebrated pianist and author Susan Tomes traces fifty such women across the piano's history. Including now-famous names such as Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, Tomes also highlights overlooked women: from Hélène de Montgeroult, whose playing saved her life during the French Revolution, to Leopoldine Wittgenstein, influential Viennese salonnière, and Hazel Scott, the first Black performer in the United States to have a nationally syndicated TV show. From Maria Szymanowska to Nina Simone, and including interviews with women performing today, this is a much-needed corrective to our understanding of the piano--and a timely testament to women's musical lives.