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Fanny Mendelssohn

Sunday

26.04.2026

11:00 — Conservatoire de musique de Genève, Geneva

Series Chamber music
Chambre music

Programme

Sidonie BougamontClaire Dassesseviolin

Luca Casciatoviola

Léonard Frey-Maibachcello

Fanny Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E-flat major 
Piano quartet in A flat major
Piano trio in D minor, Op. 11

The music

As gifted as her beloved brother, Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn was held back by the prejudices of her time that a woman should first and foremost be a loving wife and a caring mother. Adored by a brother who did not, however, encourage the publication of her works, Fanny was nevertheless able to compose some 460 scores throughout her life, encouraged by an artist husband who recognized her exceptional talent.

Recently discovered, her String Quartet in E flat major was not intended to leave the family sphere. However, it is a pure, serious and lyrical masterpiece that should be discovered urgently. The Piano Quartet in A flat major is a student work when she worked with her brother with Carl Zelter. However, one can detect a real personality in it. The audacity and structure of her Trio in D minor, one of her last works, hints at the royal road that Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn could have reached if she had lived a little longer.

OSR Live

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Claude Debussy - Duke Ellington - Richard Strauss

Rhapsodie pour clarinette - New World A-Comin' - Don Quichotte

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Marc Perrenoud

artist in residence , piano

Recorded on 21 September 2022 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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JONATHAN NOTT

Conductor

Yvonne Naef

mezzo-soprano

György Ligeti
Poème symphonique, pour cent métronomes

Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm süsser Tod (orchestration by Leopold Stokowski)

Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Recorded on 21 January 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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