Fanny Kistner-Hensel

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Fanny Julie Magdalene Elisabeth Kistner-Hensel (born December 18, 1918 in Erlangen ; died August 24, 2006 there ) was a German harpsichordist , pianist , music teacher , composer and editor .

Live and act

Fanny Kistner-Hensel comes from the family of descendants of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn . The composer and pianist Fanny Hensel -Mendelssohn was her great-grandmother, the philosopher Paul Hensel her father and the historian Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel (also Löwenthal-Hensel) her younger sister.

In Erlangen, Fanny Hensel (as her maiden name and the married name of her grandmother) attended the humanistic grammar school. At the age of six she began with the Erlangen musician and teacher Léonie Langen-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy with music lessons until 1936. From then on she studied harpsichord at the Academy of Music in Munich with Li Stadelmann . Your composition teacher there was Joseph Haas . From 1940 to 42 she completed her studies in Li Stadelmann's master class. From 1943 she worked as a music teacher in Erlangen and went on concert tours from there.

In the Third Reich , all bearers and relatives of the Jewish name Mendelssohn were banned from practicing their profession; the extent to which Fanny Kistner-Hensel was affected is not known. In the post-war years she made a name for herself as a Bach and Handel interpreter and gave concerts with the Erlangen Chamber Orchestra . Fanny Kistner-Hensel lived and worked, like the musician Léonie Langen-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, mainly in the Franconian university town of Erlangen. In addition to her educational activities, she devoted herself particularly to the work of her great-grandmother Fanny Hensel. Her great-grandmother 's Selected Piano Works, published by G. Henle Verlag in 1986, are among the earliest prints by this late rediscovered composer. She worked with the Mendelssohn researcher Rudolf Elvers and the pianist Hans-Martin Theopold .

Compositions

The extent and details of Kistner-Hensel's work as a composer are still largely unclear. Kürschner's musician calendar shows only one work:

  • Piano pieces for beginners (manuscript)

There are signs of larger compositions:

  • Music for choir and orchestra for Faust II, Furore Verlag 2007
  • Songs, in Miriams-Song-Music , Zuk Records, Bremerhaven 2010

The family estate relating to them is largely unexplored.

Publications

Phonograms and printed music

As a pianist:

As a composer:

  • Faust, Part II for orchestra, choir and soloists (start date under Fanny Hensel, Arr. Furore Verlag 2007); Songs with Kl. by Fanny Hensel under the name Kistner-Hensel / Hensel (piano?)
  • Sound carrier / print (?): Song (s) in Miriams-Song-Music . Jewish composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Zuk Records, Bremerhaven 2010, OCLC 883909045 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All information in: Hedwig and EH Mueller von Azow: Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . (Second edition). Walter de Gruyter & Co. Berlin 1954, Col. 471/72.
  2. ↑ Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Léonie. In: iserver-online2.de. Erlangen City Archives, accessed on October 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Fanny Kistner-Hensel (Ed.): Fanny Hensel: Selected piano works . Urtext and first edition, edited from the autographs. G. Henle Verlag, Munich 1986, DNB 350232520 , ISMN 979-02018-0392-0 (search in the DNB portal) , new edition Furore Verlag 2009 ?.
personal data
SURNAME Kistner-Hensel, Fanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kistner-Hensel, Fanny Julie Magdalene Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German harpsichordist, pianist, music teacher, composer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1918
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DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2006
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