Fanny Mendelssohn was a truly great composer, but she faced an almost overwhelming set of obstacles to getting her work published. Fanny Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on 14 November 1805 and learned ...

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 ...

Mendelssohn spent her whole life immersed in creating music, beginning at a young age with lessons from her mother (who had been taught by a pupil of JS Bach). Throughout her life she organised weekly ...

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Felix Mendelssohn, the famed, wildly prolific 19th-century composer. But what about Fanny? This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny ...

“I was forced to confess that Fanny had written the song, which I found very hard, but pride must have a fall,” Felix wrote home to Berlin. To soothe his wounded pride, he begged the queen to sing one ...

It's an hour of sisters and brothers on Performance Today. We'll start with two exceptionally close siblings, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn. When Fanny was young, she aspired to be a professional ...

Sister of the celebrated Felix, Fanny’s own prodigious gifts were kept as quiet as possible and long remained unknown. A new film, by Fanny’s direct descendent, tells her story To read the family’s ...

A vivid portrait of Mendelssohn drawn through performance, discussion, debate and talks Six new Songs Without Words by young composers commissioned by Radio 3 Across the country, dozens of choirs ...

A piano sonata by German composer Fanny Mendelssohn is being performed in Britain for the first time, 140 years after it was written. The work was once thought to be by her brother, Felix. A sonata ...

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 ...