Fanny Mendelssohn may be long dead, but she’s finally getting her moment in the spotlight. A sonata penned by Mendelssohn will finally be performed under her name on International Women’s Day after it ...
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.
“Easter Sonata” — a complex four-movement piano composition from 19th century Germany — could only have been written by Felix Mendelssohn. Or so thought many of the archivists, scholars and musicians ...
A closing caption points out, depressingly, that 90% of all music performed in the world’s concert halls is written by men, making the tale of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel all the more pertinent. Her ...
Full casting has been confirmed for Calum Finlay’s comedy Fanny. First seen at the Watermill Theatre in 2024, where it received a glowing review from WhatsOnStage, the piece tells the overlooked story ...
She plays the intricate Rachmaninov arrangement of the Scherzo at a moderate tempo, slower than many, but with plenty of glittering fairy dust. Let's be real, Kanneh-Mason doesn't have Yuja Wang's ...