Beyond orchestral music, Mendelssohn’s contributions to chamber music, choral works, and piano repertoire cement his status as ... As he was composing it, he told his sister Fanny, “It will be the ...

Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century. But because she was a woman, she had to fight for her music to be heard. She was born into a musical family – her mother taught ...

The prolific German composer Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847) wrote some 450 works - "but many were published under her brother's name," said <a href=" Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) ...