There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Felix Mendelssohn, the famed, wildly prolific 19th-century composer. But what about Fanny? This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny ...

She grew up studying music with her brother, Felix, and showed considerable talent, however was discouraged from pursuing music as a vocation by her father because she was a woman. Mendelssohn ...

Mercury Studios, the production company behind recent Abbey Road Studios doc “If These Walls Could Sing,” have unveiled their new feature, about composer Felix Mendelssohn’s genius sister Fanny.

Like most freelance writers, I dabble in the odd spot of ghost writing. Without wishing to open the factory door, this involves preparing drafts that may – or, most likely, may not – be tweaked by the ...

Encyclopedia Britannica describes Felix Mendelssohn thus: "German composer, pianist, musical conductor, and teacher, one of the most celebrated figures of the early Romantic period". He only lived to ...

BBC 100 Women is celebrating talented women from history whose work has been overshadowed by their male relatives. Fanny Mendelssohn composed more than 400 works of music, most of which were ...

Clonmel's Finding a Voice festival, a festival devoted exclusively to music by women, is happening online this year, the only way that's possible for it. The great Japanese marimba player Keiko Abe ...

At Buckingham Palace in 1842, the German composer Felix Mendelssohn found himself confessing to piracy. Queen Victoria, a great admirer of his music, announced her intention to sing her favorite of ...

Mendelssohn spent her whole life immersed in creating music, beginning at a young age with lessons from her mother (who had been taught by a pupil of JS Bach). Throughout her life she organised weekly ...