FRANCESCA NAVA D'ADDA - ARGENTINA
BORN 14 NOVEMBER
Francesca D'Adda (Milan, 1794 - Milan, September 23, 1877) was an Italian musician and composer.
Daughter of Margherita Cagnola and the Marquis Felice D'Adda, Francesca was musical protagonist in a period full of profound historical and cultural changes, between French fashion, Restoration, Risorgimento and the dawn of the Italian unitary State.
Milan was very active musically in those years. There are public and private events - Companies, Gardens, Academies, Lounges - accompanied by a considerable public production, and Francesca D'Adda herself continues to organize musical meetings even after her second widowhood (1862).
Between the second half of the 30s and the 70s of the XIX Century, her musical activity became deeper, going from sacred music to instrumental music, duets and trios, and showed a propensity towards classical chamber forms and for trios with piano. The piano undoubtedly remains her preferred instrument.
Daughter of Margherita Cagnola and the Marquis Felice D'Adda, Francesca was musical protagonist in a period full of profound historical and cultural changes, between French fashion, Restoration, Risorgimento and the dawn of the Italian unitary State.
Milan was very active musically in those years. There are public and private events - Companies, Gardens, Academies, Lounges - accompanied by a considerable public production, and Francesca D'Adda herself continues to organize musical meetings even after her second widowhood (1862).
Between the second half of the 30s and the 70s of the XIX Century, her musical activity became deeper, going from sacred music to instrumental music, duets and trios, and showed a propensity towards classical chamber forms and for trios with piano. The piano undoubtedly remains her preferred instrument.
She shows her sympathies for Austria musically and politically and continues the tradition of Viennese classicism. At her death (1877), the symphonic and chamber instrumental music kept her alive thanks to private concerts and academies.
Source: Enciclopedia Delle Done and Wikipedia
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Allegro maestoso by Francesca Nava d'Adda
FANNY HELSEL-MENDELSSOHN - GERMAN
BORN 14 NOVEMBER
BORN 14 NOVEMBER
Fanny Mendelssohn was a German composer and pianist. She composed over 460 pieces of music. Her compositions include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs. A number of her songs were originally published under her brother, Felix Mendelssohn's, name in his opus 8 and 9 collections. Her piano works are often in the manner of songs, and many carry the name Lieder für das Pianoforte (Songs for the piano, a parallel to Felix's Songs without Words).
In Hamburg, the Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum is dedicated to the lives and the work of her and her brother Felix.
Fanny showed prodigious musical ability as a child and began to write music. However, Fanny was limited by prevailing attitudes of the time toward women, attitudes apparently shared by her father, who was tolerant, rather than supportive, of her activities as a composer.
In 1829, after a courtship of several years, Fanny married the painter Wilhelm Hensel and the following year she had her only child, Sebastian Ludwig Felix Hensel. Wilhelm was supportive of Fanny's composing. Subsequently, her works were often played alongside her brother's at the family home in Berlin in a Sunday concert series (Sonntagskonzerte), which was originally organised by Fanny's father, and after 1831 carried on by Fanny herself. Her public debut at the piano (and only known public performance) came in 1838, when she played her brother's Piano Concerto No. 1.
Fanny Mendelssohn composed over 460 pieces of music. Her compositions include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs. A number of her songs were originally published under Felix's name in his opus 8 and 9 collections. Her piano works are often in the manner of songs, and many carry the name Lied ohne Worte (Song without Words). This style (and title) of piano music was most successfully developed by Felix Mendelssohn, though some modern scholars assert that Fanny may have preceded him in the genre.
Source: Fanny Hensel Official Website and Wikipedia
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Overture in C Major by Fanny Mendelssohn
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Overture in C Major by Fanny Mendelssohn
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