拍品专文
THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH ALBUM IS AN EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENT OF THE MENDELSSOHN CIRCLE.
Fanny Mendelssohn was an eminent composer in her own right. An excellent pianist and, as musically gifted as her brother Felix, she composed in the same style, having also studied with Zelter. Works published in her name, some posthumously, include songs, her own Lieder ohne Worte, six Gartenlieder, a Piano Trio and piano works. Most of her compositions, however, were never published, and most manuscripts are in the collections of the New York Public Library, the Bodleian Library, the Library of Congress and the Mendelssohn-Archiv in Berlin. Six of her songs were published under her brother's name in his Op.8 and 9. In 1829 she married the painter Wilhelm Hensel. Her death on 14 May 1847 was a shattering blow for Felix from which he never recovered, and he died only six months later on 4 November 1847.
This album is also an early example of an autograph collection, a fashion that did not begin to develop until the early nineteenth century
Fanny Mendelssohn was an eminent composer in her own right. An excellent pianist and, as musically gifted as her brother Felix, she composed in the same style, having also studied with Zelter. Works published in her name, some posthumously, include songs, her own Lieder ohne Worte, six Gartenlieder, a Piano Trio and piano works. Most of her compositions, however, were never published, and most manuscripts are in the collections of the New York Public Library, the Bodleian Library, the Library of Congress and the Mendelssohn-Archiv in Berlin. Six of her songs were published under her brother's name in his Op.8 and 9. In 1829 she married the painter Wilhelm Hensel. Her death on 14 May 1847 was a shattering blow for Felix from which he never recovered, and he died only six months later on 4 November 1847.
This album is also an early example of an autograph collection, a fashion that did not begin to develop until the early nineteenth century