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R. Larry Todd, Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). xviii +426 pp. £30.00

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R. Larry Todd, Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). xviii +426 pp. £30.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2011

Susan Wollenberg
Susan Wollenberg*
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 8 , Issue 2: Mahler: Centenary Commentaries on Musical Meaning , 24 November 2011 , pp. 332 - 337
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References

1 Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, rev. edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

2 See http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/MusicHistoryWestern/NineteenthCentury/?view=usa&ci=9780195180800

3 Hensel, Fanny, Letter to Franz Hauser, 24 November 1843 (quoted in Matthew Head, ‘Genre, Romanticism and Female Authorship: Fanny Hensel's “Scottish” Sonata in G Minor (1843)’, in Nineteenth Century Music Review 4/2 (2007): 68, citing Eva Weissweiler, Fanny Mendelssohn: Ein Portrait in Briefen (Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein, 1985): 154Google Scholar; and in a different translation in Todd, p. 294). Volume 4/2 of Nineteenth Century Music Review is a composer-themed issue devoted to Fanny Hensel.

4 Hensel, Fanny, Letter to Felix Mendelssohn, 9 July 1846, in Marcia J. Citron, The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn, Collected, Edited and Translated with Introductory Essays and Notes (Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, 1987): 351Google Scholar.

5 Felix Mendelssohn, Letter to Fanny Hensel, 12 August 1846 ( Hensel, Sebastian, Die Familie Mendelssohn (1729–1847), 3rd ed., 2 vols. (Berlin: B. Behr, 1882): II: 366–367Google Scholar), quoted in slightly different translations in Citron, The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn, 356, and in Todd, 316.

6 The context in which this passage occurs repays close attention: Abraham's ambivalence about Felix's career prospects emerges from his choice of words. See Wollenberg, Susan, ‘“Master of Her Art”: Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn Bartholdy), 1805–1847’, Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music 3/6 (October 2005): 33–44Google Scholar, esp. 40.

7 Citron, The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn, xxxv.

8 Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel and Jutta Arnold, Wilhelm Hensel 1794–1861: Porträtist und Maler, Werke und Dokumente (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2004)Google Scholar.

9 See Borchard, Beatrix and Bartsch, Cornelia, ‘Leipzigerstraβe Drei: Sites for Music’, Nineteenth Century Music Review 4/2 (2007): 119–125CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Citron, Marcia J., ‘A Bicentennial Reflection: Twenty-five Years with Fanny Hensel’, Nineteenth Century Music Review 4/2 (2007): 15Google Scholar.

11 ibid., 19.