Fanny Hensel

• Visit the companion web site
• First bio of Hensel to consider the full scope of her music as well as her life
• First bio to argue for stylistic independence from brother Felix Mendelssohn
• Based on a wealth of little-known, German, or recently discovered archival material
• Written for the general audience music lover with choice musical examples in the book; more extensive musical examples for the scholarly audience on companion website

Readership: General audience music lovers; students and scholars of 19th-century music, Mendelssohn, women and music

R. Larry Todd, Professor of Music, Duke University

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note On the Website
Genealogical Tree of the Itzig and Mendelssohn Families
Preface
1.: Fugal Fingers (1805-1818)
2.: Musical Ornaments (1819-1821)
3.: Sibling Rivalry and Separation (1822-1824)
4.: Leipzigerstrasse No. 3 (1825-1828)
5.: Becoming Frau Hensel (1828-1830)
6.: Secret Aspirations (1830-1833)
7.: Youthful Decrepitude (1834-1835)
8.: Demonic Influences (1836-1839)
9.: . Italian Intermezzo (1839-1840)
10.: Domestic Tranquility (1840-1842)
11.: The Joys of Dilettantism (1843-1845)
12.: Engraver's Ink and Heavenly Songs (1846-1847)
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Fanny Hensel's Compositions
General Index