As you prepare for class today…

• Turn in Homework Assignment #2 at front

• Pick up handout for Group Oral
Presentation
• Pick up Study Guide for Quiz #1

You are listening to the lieder of

Fanny
Mendelssohn
Hensel
https://towson-naxosmusiclibrary-com.proxy-tu.researchport.umd.edu/catalogue/item.asp?cid=8.572781
THE MUSIC OF FANNY HENSEL

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Class #6

https://blue-stocking.org.uk/2008/04/01/from-private-to-public/
 Today’s topics

• Study Guide for Quiz #1

• Fanny’s lieder and keyboard
pieces
• Fanny’s marriage and
Italian trip
• Introduction to Group Oral
Presentation Project
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/files/2015/09/Fanny-and-Wilhelm.jpg
 Quiz
• Quiz next Thursday, February 20
• All questions taken directly from study guide
• Four listening identification / 11 true false, multiple
choice, fill in the blank
• Listening identification will be:
• #1 – “Schwanenlied”
• #3 – “Du bist die Ruh”
• #5 – “September: At the River”
• #7 – Piano Trio in d minor, Mvt. 1 “Allegro molto vivace”
 Fanny and Wilhelm
• 1821 - first meets Hensel when
she is 16
• Sets some of his poems to
music
• 1829 – marriage to Hensel &
Felix departs for a tour
• 1830 – Sebastian born
• 1831 – Sonntagsmusiken
– Cantatas
– Overture
– String Quartet
 Fanny’s Italian Trip
• 1835 – Abraham Mendelssohn dies
• 1837 – Felix marries
• 1839 – Hensels travel to Italy
• In Rome, Fanny is given great acclaim and treated as a
talented composer and performer
• Spurs 24 compositions while traveling
– Includes “Schwanenlied”
– Das Jahr composed upon their return
• Turning point – sees herself as a professional, rather
than amateur musician
Fanny’s Music Room

Source: Oxford University Press

 Score Manuscript

Source: Sotheby’s Auction House

Fanny at the Piano

Source: Oxford University Press

 Group Oral Presentations
• Tuesday, sign up for group presentations
– Lottery
– If you are absent, I will place you in a group
– Groups 1 – 4 will go on day one (Tuesday, March 3)
• Teresa Carreño (3 people)
• Cécile Chaminade (2 people)
• Ethel Smyth (3 people)
• Florence Price (3 people)
– Groups 5 – 7 will go on day two (Thursday, March 5)
• Louise Talma (3 people)
• Ruth Crawford Seeger (3 people)
• Pauline Garcia-Viardot (3 people)
 Group Oral Presentations
• Groups of three students/one group of two
• Presentation on a woman composer of the mid-late
Romantic period
• Consider the five factors for musical success and
evaluate the life of the composer
• Presentation: 10 - 12 minutes
• One grade given to group
• All participate
• Use sources introduced to you in library sessions
 Teresa Carreño
• Caracas, Venezuela
• 1853 – 1917
• Pianist
• Singer
• Composer
• Lived in U.S.
• Studied with Louis Moreau
Gottschalk

Source: https://musicalics.com/en/composer/Maria-Teresa-Carre%C3%B1o-Garcia-de-Sena
 Cécile Chaminade

• Paris, France
• 1857 – 1944
• Pianist
• Composer of songs, large
scale and small scale works for
piano, flute, and
• Studied privately with faculty
at Paris Conservatory

Source: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/great-women-composer
 Ethel Smyth

• London, England
• 1858 – 1944
• Studied at Leipzig Conservatory
• Composed operas, overtures,
chamber music, and vocal works
• Active in women’s suffragette
movement

Source: https://twitter.com/burgonsoc/status/9607756345313
 Florence B. Price

• Little Rock, Arkansas

• 1887 – 1953
• Composed songs,
symphonies, piano concerto,
chamber pieces, choral works
• First African American women
to compose a symphony
played by major orchestra

Source; http://www.florenceprice.org/
 Ruth Crawford Seeger

• East Liverpool, Ohio

• 1887 – 1953
• Composer of chamber music and
small orchestral works
• Collected and published
American folk songs
• Studied at American
Conservatory
• Composed in experimental style

Source: http://www.peggyseeger.com/ruth-crawford-seeger/ruth-crawford-seeger-press-kit/ruth-
crawford-seeger-press-photos
 Louise Talma
• Arcachon, France
• 1906 – 1996
• Spent much of her life in
U.S.
• Studied at Fountainbleu
in France
• Composed operas, choral
works, orchestral pieces,
chamber music, piano
works
Source: www.loc.gov
 Pauline Garcia-Viardot

• Paris, France
• 1821-1910
• Opera singer, composer,
teacher
• Hosted notable Paris salon
• Composed mainly vocal
music: songs & choral
works and chamber music

Source: https://musicksmonument.nl/Lesprit_de_Paris_-
_La_belle_epoche/PAULINE_MICHELLE_FERDINANDE_GARCIA_VIARDOT.html
 For next time …

• Read Fanny Hensel, pp.

342-358
• Complete listening
examples #6, #7, #8 - #12

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2013/01/28/170484731/meet-the-musical-mendelssohns-felix-and-fanny