These last ten days or so, I've kept reading all I could get my hands on by and about Fanny Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy, Hensel). I had been vaguely aware of her in the past as sister of (Felix), and granddaughter of (Moses), and I knew she'd composed, but then I listened to a wonderful audio portrait of her available on Audible ("Nach Süden. A ( Read more... )