Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century. But because she was a woman, she had to fight for her music to be heard. She was born into a musical family – her mother taught ...

Family and friends in her wealthy circle knew she was a concert-quality pianist, and often heard her perform in recitals in the music room of the Mendelssohn home in Berlin. When she was 15 ...

Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49, was written in 1839. Along with the famous Octet it is one of his most popular chamber works. When fellow-composer Robert Schumann reviewed ...

Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann moved in the same musical circles but were never close acquaintances. Both were highly ...

Poetry Out Loud, presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, brings some of ...

“Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann preceded Amy ... Sergei Rachmaninoff and Amy Beach were contemporaries, and I find that their music pairs together well. Since they were both pianists ...

The concert is the final performance of Daytona Solisti’s 2025 Winter Festival celebrating the group’s 20th anniversary.

The Ulster Orchestra performs works by Mendelssohn, Schumann ... year later he turned his attention back to writing orchestral music. His wife, Clara, wrote in her diary in 1831 that she could ...

The award winning Balourdet Quartet and ECMS artistic director Tom Stone will present musical selections and a discussion of ...