But my great-great-great grandmother, Fanny Mendelssohn, was an unusual woman, and even today she inspires extraordinary passions. So for 15 years, she wrote music she knew she’d only ever hear in her own home. Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Full of crossings out and annotations’ … a detail of the original manuscript of Fanny Mendelssohn’s Easter Sonata. For a woman of 22 to write a piano sonata less than a year after Beethoven died was a big deal. So finally, 189 years after she wrote it, the Easter Sonata is to be performed as Fanny’s work, and my patient, determined, dauntless forebear gets the re-evaluation she deserves.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2017 08:48 UTC