Fanny Mendelssohn
Composer
1805 – 1847
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Who was Fanny Mendelssohn?
Fanny Mendelssohn, later Fanny [Cäcilie] Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. She was the grandmother of the philosopher Paul Hensel and the mathematician Kurt Hensel.
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- Born
- Nov 14, 1805
Hamburg - Also known as
- Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
- Mendelssohn, Fanny
- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Wilhelm Hensel
(1829/10/03 - )
- Wilhelm Hensel
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- May 14, 1847
Berlin
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on July 23, 2013
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