This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's classical spotlight is on Fanny Mendelssohn. Fanny Mendelssohn was born in 1805 and as a child was given ...

Mercury Studios, the production company behind recent Abbey Road Studios doc “If These Walls Could Sing,” have unveiled their new feature, about composer Felix Mendelssohn’s genius sister Fanny.

Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century. But because she was a woman, she had to fight for her music to be heard. She was born into a musical family – her mother taught ...

Both Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn were precocious children who revealed their musical talent early on. Their family fostered their skills; both received piano and counterpoint instruction. Felix was ...

Musical talent tends to run in families. Think of Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Colin and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, or The Jackson 5. But long before those musical ...

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Felix Mendelssohn, the famed, wildly prolific 19th-century composer. But what about Fanny? This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In Calum Finlay’s Fanny, sibling rivalry and the forgotten women of classical ...

"Easter Sonata" — a complex four-movement piano composition from 19th-century Germany — could only have been written by Felix Mendelssohn. Or so thought many of the archivists, scholars and musicians ...

A piano sonata by German composer Fanny Mendelssohn is being performed in Britain for the first time, 140 years after it was written. The work was once thought to be by her brother, Felix. A sonata ...