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Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805–1847)
composed prolifically for voices — a natural outgrowth of her role presiding over Berlin's celebrated Sonntagsmusiken, the weekly concert series she organized and conducted at the family home for nearly two decades. Her choral output includes four cantatas, numerous a cappella part songs, and her best-known choral work, the Gartenlieder, Op. 3 — six SATB settings of Romantic poetry by Eichendorff, Uhland, and her husband Wilhelm Hensel. Lyrical, harmonically rich, and largely unaccompanied, these pieces distill her years of songwriting into music built for voices alone. Most of it went unpublished in her lifetime. Naturally.
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