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Composer: Mendelssohn, Fanny (1805-1847)

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Festum Pi

Cultural Centre Of Chania

Fri 31 Jul at 20:30

Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn, Jaëll, Fauré, Ravel, Debussy, Bacewicz, Bernstein

Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque

Église de Goult

Fri 14 Aug at 21:00

Haydn, Bacewicz, Mendelssohn

Petrlik, Brakha, Fourrier, Carlon, Quatuor Elmire

ARD International Music Competition

Amerikahaus München

Brahms, Dvořák, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Smetana, Berio, Carter, Donatoni, Dusapin, Gubaidulina, Gourzi, Henze, Kurtág, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann, Wolfe

Contestants of the ARD International Music Competition

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Linos Piano Trio © Kaupo Kikkas

The Linos Piano Trio take us off the beaten track in trios by Fauré and Fanny Mendelssohn

Natalia Ponomarchuk © Alina Harmash

Energetic Scottish Symphony lifts a weighty evening of the Schumanns and Mendelssohns

Richard Tognetti, Polina Leschenko and the Australian Chamber Orchestra © Nic Walker

Young Romantic masters played by the ACO and Polina Leschenko

By Zoltán Szabó

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© Yanan Li

Konserthuset Stockholm: Grünewaldsalen

Tarrodi, Mendelssohn

Bonfiglioli, Agnas de Frumerie, Skoog Aquilonius, Castanyer Alonso

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Ethel Smyth used her golfing prowess to teach suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst how to throw bricks. © GPP | LSE Library

Polymath composers and their extra-musical successes

By Timmy Fisher

Fact file

Year of birth	1805
Year of death	1847
Nationality	Germany
Period	Romantic

Top works

Das Jahr (The Year), H. 385 Overture in C major Schwanenlied, Op.1 no.1 String Quartet in E flat major Trois Mélodies, Op.4: II. Allegretto See all...

List of works

4 Lieder for Piano, Op.8: Lieder no. 1 Capriccio in A flat Major Das Jahr (The Year), H. 385 Lieder für das Pianoforte (Songs for the piano)Notturno in G minor Overture in C major Quatre Romances sans paroles, Op.8: I. Allegro moderato Schwanenlied, Op.1 no.1 String Quartet in E flat major Suleika Trois Mélodies, Op.4: II. Allegretto