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Seeing so many people in the insta replies correcting the record is SO heartening

Google does it again: This is not Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Cécile Jeanrenaud Mendelssohn painted by Eduard Magnus When Felix Mendelssohn fell head over heels in love while in Frankfurt in the summer of 1836, his sisters back in Berlin begged for informatio…

I point everyone to the incomparable @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social and her post marianwilsonkimber.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/g...

Yeah this merits a much deeper investigation later this week.

They also got Florence Price’s birth year wrong … there was some confusion for a while but it’s definitely 1888.

Correction—7 women

That’s what I’m googling now lol

Well to be fair, it was a slideshow of ~a dozen women, including Clara Schumann. But none other than the most obvious/well known. Like, they didn’t have to do any research at. all.

I’m so fucking tired guys

detrasdelcanon 1d Hi! Please correct me if I'm wrong but | believe that is not F. Mendelssohn Hensel Reply Hide replies womencomposersproject 23h @detrasdelcanon it's definitely not F. Mendelssohn Hensel! I think it's her sister in law! Reply actresspillado 13h @detrasdelcanon right, it is NOT Fanny Mendelssohn

kkaldi.willow 4h That is not Fanny Mendelssohn, she's Cecile Mendelssohn... Felix's wife Reply mary_st_artist 19h I love these women and their music, but people ALWAYS post the same ones, when there are DOZENS of them. Why not investigate a little bit more?? Reply rcg167 4h I think the portrait labelled Fanny Mendelssohn is actually Felix Mendelssohn's wife Cecile Reply jessica_yiu26 18m Again @deccaclassics u have used the wrong picture for Fanny Mendelssohn... Reply 2 5 2 1

Reply mathijs.lemmens 1d How about Louise Farrenc Reply beethovenvanludwig1770 1d Barbara Strozzi? Reply ana_schlee 1d Reply triciarosasmusic 1d Reply kkaldi.willow 4h That is not Fanny Mendelssohn, she's Cecile Mendelssohn... Felix's wife Reply 2 4 2

rodrigozquintana 2h So many other incredible women to be named. Reply sopraninoargentina 7h Paule Maurice Reply anabonagamba 1d And Chiquinha Gonzaga! Reply marcelino. plaza 14h You are overlooking no less tha Teresa Carreño! Reply drucillaaaaaa 14h & margaret bonds !!!!!

Luckily they are getting schooled in the comments

Alt text: over an image of CECILE MENDELSSOHN (Felix Mendelssohn’s wife)

FANNY MENDELSSOHN (1805-1847)
Composer of over 450 works, including piano cycles and songs, now recognised as a major
Romantic voice.

Fanny & Cécile — HenselPushers

Henselpushers.org/cecile

HOOO BOY Decca Classics epically fucking up their women’s history month Instagram post …

YouTube video by Minnesota Orchestra Margaret Bonds' Montgomery Variations (1964) | Minnesota Orchestra | Scott Yoo

People need to know her Montgomery Variations. They're pretty amazing: youtu.be/ereaXUDie-A?...

Yes!! Love the Montgomery Variations

YouTube video by Samantha Ege "The Bells" from Spiritual Suite by Margaret Bonds performed by Samantha Ege

I have just been informed it is Margaret Bonds’s birthday!

The most famous piece from her excellent Spiritual Suite is Troubled Water, but my favorite is The Bells

youtu.be/_xt7XP8HJ8c?...

I’d be very interested to read your stuff about r/classicalmusic!

New-to-me recording of Felix op. 80 that I found thanks to Lewis mentioning it the other day...

Well worth your time!

youtu.be/7epVd81pc5U?...

YouTube video by Hensel Pushers Arranging and performing Fanny Hensel - Lewis Patzner and Henselpushers

Or hear our whole conversation at

youtu.be/OfPu9ipCfno?...

Fanny Hensel: Keyboard-to-Quartet Lecture-Concert A midday lecture-concert of solo piano and string quartet music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.

Get tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/fanny-hens...

Keyboard to Quartet Lecture-Concert — HenselPushers

Learn more about the concert at
henselpushers.org/k2q

Talking about Hensel’s quartet and standard rep with @lewispatzner.bsky.social of the Town Quartet. The string quartet is the centerpiece of our lecture-concert on April 4 in Berkeley CA

YouTube video by Chen Reiss - Topic 6 Lieder, Op. 9: No. 3, Der Rosenkranz (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Tal-Haim Samnon)

I also really love this orchestrated version:

YouTube video by Eugene Asti - Topic Fanny Mendelssohn: 6 Lieder, Op. 9: No. 3, Der Rosenkranz

happy 200th anniversary of Fanny Hensel composing Der Rosenkranz (H168) - March 3, 1826.

This was one of her few published pieces (posthumously), op.9, no. 3.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1t7...

hear the music Felix Mendelssohn called "too much"! henselpushers.org/k2q

Hey Bay Area,

oof! that green is really pretty though

Love that. I didn’t know they had arsenic in wallpaper!

A screenshot from a walk-tracking app of Home Depot with red lines all over, like toddler scribbles

map my walk tells a story

We were regrettably unsuccessful

The man is always up to something