Unlike her parents, her brother was very supportive of her career as a composer, and since women composers were often ignored and not taken seriously, she published some of her music under his name. 1, and she only performed in public on two other occasions. She had her debut as a pianist in 1838, in a performance of her brother Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. That same year she also became known as a composer after writer John Thomsen mentioned her in an article in the British music journal Harmonicon. Her parents discouraged the relationship because Hensel was not very wealthy, but they eventually married ten years later and had a son in 1830. When she was around 17 years old, she began a long courtship with artist Wilhelm Hensel. Beginning in 1819, she also studied composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter, who was impressed with her interpretations of Bach. Five years later, she took piano lessons with Marie Bigot in Paris followed by further piano studies with Ludwig Berger. They were also baptized and converted to Christianity to avoid religious persecution. In 1811 the family moved to Berlin to escape the invading French army led by Napoleon. Mendelssohn and her three younger siblings all received their initial musical training from their mother. Her father Abraham was a successful banker, and her mother Lea was an accomplished pianist who learned from Johann Kirnberger, a former student of J.S. ![]() She was born in 1805 to a wealthy Jewish family in Hamburg. Although her career was largely overshadowed by her younger brother Felix, she was a prolific composer of over 450 works. Fanny Mendelssohn was a German pianist and composer from the Romantic period.
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