Description
Fanny Hensel, the sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, composed music throughout her life. Initially, she published her songs and piano pieces under her brother's name, but later began using her own name, confiding in her diary that "I cannot deny that the joy I derive in publishing my own music also increases my good humour." Fortunately, Hensel's great-granddaughter, Fanny Kistner-Hensel, granted the G. Henle Verlag access to a previously unpublished selection of 11 piano pieces, which she then edited herself from the original manuscripts. The collection spans Hensel's compositional development, beginning with early instructional works and transitioning to a chronological sequence of personal character pieces such as the Notturno in G minor and "Abschied von Rom" [Departure from Rome], composed from the mid-1830s onward.
