Fanny Mendelssohn was a truly great composer, but she faced an almost overwhelming set of obstacles to getting her work published. Fanny Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on 14 November 1805 and learned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If ever a composer suffered unfairly because of her gender, it was Fanny Mendelssohn. She lived her life in the shadow of her beloved younger brother, even though the music she did write showed every ...

Fanny Mendelssohn and her brother were inseparable. That is until Felix and her father discouraged her dreams of a career in music. No such prejudice in the Kanneh-Mason family, where all are ...

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.

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 ...