Felix didn’t disagree ... able to get her works heard through fortnightly private concerts in the Mendelssohn family home. These soirees included chamber music, concert versions of the ...

She was born into a musical family – her mother taught her to play the piano and her brother was the composer Felix Mendelssohn. Fanny was such a brilliant pianist that at the age of 13 she could play ...

The talents of our Mendelssohn’s father lay elsewhere. He built up a powerful Hamburg bank and became a man of considerable wealth, while his wife provided the intellectual life of the family – a ...