COMPOSER

Fanny Mendelssohn

1805 - 1847

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Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was known as Fanny Hensel after her marriage. Her compositions include a string quartet, a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for the piano and over 250 lieder, most of which were unpublished in her lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fanny Mendelssohn has received more than 1,132,128 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Fanny Mendelssohn is the 118th most popular composer (up from 141st in 2019), the 405th most popular biography from Germany (up from 494th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Composer.

Fanny Mendelssohn is most famous for being the sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Fanny Mendelssohn ranks 118 out of 1,451. Before her are Mily Balakirev, Arthur Honegger, Gregorio Allegri, Francisco Tárrega, György Ligeti, and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. After her are Heitor Villa-Lobos, Muzio Clementi, Krzysztof Penderecki, Josef Strauss, Emmerich Kálmán, and Max Bruch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Fanny Mendelssohn ranks 9. Before her are Giuseppe Mazzini, Alexis de Tocqueville, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Ferdinand de Lesseps, and William Rowan Hamilton. After her are Louis Auguste Blanqui, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Marie d'Agoult, Khachatur Abovian, and Robert FitzRoy. Among people deceased in 1847, Fanny Mendelssohn ranks 4. Before her are Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Felix Mendelssohn, and Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen. After her are Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Mary Anning, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Jules de Polignac, Marie Duplessis, John Franklin, Adélaïde d'Orléans, and Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fanny Mendelssohn ranks 405 out of 7,253. Before her are Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Joachim Peiper (1915), Julius von Mayer (1814), Hans Luther (1879), Otto Diels (1876), and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732). After her are Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Paul Hausser (1880), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), and Karl Drais (1785).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Fanny Mendelssohn ranks 24. Before her are Johann Pachelbel (1653), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Paul Hindemith (1895), Heinrich Schütz (1585), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732). After her are Max Bruch (1838), Kurt Weill (1900), Max Reger (1873), Louis Spohr (1784), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), and Michael Praetorius (1571).

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