Fanny Hensel
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Fanny Cäcilie Hensel née Mendelssohn was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, also known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quar
Hensel, 1842
Carl Friedrich Zelter – portrait by Carl Begas (1827)
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, as drawn by Fanny's husband Wilhelm Hensel
Felix Mendelssohn aged 12 (1821) by Carl Begas
Sebastian Hensel
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Sebastian Ludwig Felix Hensel was a German landowner, entrepreneur and author.
Fanny Hensel
…published under her brother's name in his Opus 8 and 9 collections. In 1829, she married artist Wilhelm Hensel and, in 1830, they had their only child, Sebastian Hensel. In 1846, despite the continuing ambivalence of some of her family (but not her husband) toward her musical ambitions, Fanny Hensel published a collection…
Sebastian Hensel (photograph of the 1890s)