Hensel: String Quartet in E flat
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- Author: Benedict Taylor, University of Edinburgh
- Date Published: November 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316513842
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The String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth century. Composed at a turning point in her life (as Hensel was not only grappling with her own creative voice but also coming to terms with her identity as a married woman, and the role her family expected of her), the quartet is significant in showing a woman composing in a genre that was then almost exclusively the domain of male artists. Benedict Taylor's illuminating book situates itself within developing scholarly discourse on the music of women composers, going beyond apologetics – or condemnation of those who hindered their development – to examine the strength and qualities of the music and how it responded to the most progressive works of the period.
Read more- Offers the most detailed and the only substantial account of one of the most significant works of music by a woman composer
- Develops an argument concerning the Mendelssohns' use of music as a means of intimate musical communication, taking further the proposition that music served as a more precise means of communication than words for the siblings
- Contributes to the enormous growth of interest in musical form, specifically the turn to the nineteenth-century repertoire in the 'New Formenlehre'
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- Date Published: November 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316513842
- length: 150 pages
- dimensions: 222 x 141 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Genesis and private reception
4. First movement: Adagio ma non troppo
5. Second movement: Allegretto
6. Third movement: Romanza
7. Finale: Allegro molto vivace
8. Responding to the Quartet.
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