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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 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an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for the piano and over 250 lieder, most of which were unpublished in her lifetime.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 1,078,715 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Fanny Mendelssohn is the 141st most popular composer (up from 152nd in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from Germany (up from 496th in 2019) and the 25th 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 141 out of 1,216. Before her are César Cui, Emmerich Kálmán, Pierre Boulez, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Michel Legrand, and Léonin. After her are Tomás Luis de Victoria, Anna Maria Mozart, Gregorio Allegri, Daniel Auber, Henry Mancini, and Kurt Weill.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fanny Mendelssohn ranks 494 out of 6,142. Before her are John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1572), Otto Strasser (1897), Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867), Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667), Louis the Child (893), and Caroline Herschel (1750). After her are Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Pyotr Stolypin (1862), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Werner von Fritsch (1880), and Julia Drusilla (16).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Fanny Mendelssohn ranks 25. Before her are Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Heinrich Schütz (1585), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Max Bruch (1838), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732). After her are Kurt Weill (1900), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Louis Spohr (1784), Max Reger (1873), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), and Michael Praetorius (1571).

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