![]() ![]() On the other hand, Felix was supportive of her, as a composer and a performer, although cautious (professedly for family reasons) of her publishing her works under her own name. Her father wrote to her in 1820 'Music will perhaps become his profession, while for you it can and must be only an ornament'. However, she was limited by prevailing attitudes of the time toward women, attitudes apparently shared by her father, who was tolerant, rather than supportive, of her activities as a composer. Visitors to the Mendelssohn household in the early 1820s, including Ignaz Moscheles and Sir George Smart, were equally impressed by both siblings. Like Felix (who was born in 1809), Fanny showed prodigious musical ability as a child and began to write music. She was descended on both sides from distinguished Jewish families her parents were Abraham Mendelssohn, (who was the son of Moses Mendelssohn and later changed the family surname to Mendelssohn Bartholdy), and Lea, née Salomon, a granddaughter of the entrepreneur Daniel Itzig.įanny b enefited from the same musical education and upbringing as her brother Felix, sharing a number of his music tutors, including Carl Friedrich Zelter. Fanny Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, the oldest of four children. Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (Novem? May 14, 1847), later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
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