Piano Сycle “Das Jahr” (A Year) by F. Hansel: From the History of Creating

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Maria V. Kholodova
Vera S. Ponomareva

Abstract

Fanny Hansel, nee Mendelssohn, the sister of the composer F. Mendelssohn, is one of the creative personalities in the history of Western European music, an unrecognized genius of the Romantic era. In the last two decades, there has been an intensification of foreign scientific thought to her rich heritage, and compositions are increasingly appearing in the performers’ repertoire. In the Russian musicology the F. Hansel’s creative work has not received comprehensive coverage yet, a lot of her compositions are waiting for their researcher. The piano cycle “Das Jahrˮ (A Year) deserves particular consideration. This opus was written by F. Hansel after a trip to Italy in 1839, which became a turning point in her world outlook. This circumstance has determined the perspectives of the given study, the purpose of which is to draw out the psychological “landscapeˮ of the Italian trip in support of the composer՚s epistolary heritage.


For the first time, data from foreign studies that have not been translated into Russian are introduced into scientific use, among which the fundamental works were the works by M. Wilson-Kimber, L. Todd, M. Bar-Sheney, A. Thompson. Their study, where the most valuable was Fanny՚s reflective “living wordˮ as a marker of the “author՚s self-presentationˮ1, made it possible to expand the context of the appearance of the cycle, to comprehend deeper the personal aspects reflected in the original artistic concept of the composition.


Keywords: F. Hansel, women-composers, piano music of the 19th century, German romanticism, piano cycle “A Yearˮ.

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Kholodova М. В., & Ponomareva В. С. (2022). Piano Сycle “Das Jahr” (A Year) by F. Hansel: From the History of Creating. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 47(2), 163–171. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1368
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History of Western Music
Author Biographies

Maria V. Kholodova, Hvorostovsky Siberian State Academy of Arts, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

PhD (Arts), Associate Professor, Hvorostovsky Siberian State Academy of Arts

Vera S. Ponomareva, Hvorostovsky Siberian State Academy of Arts, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Lecturer at the Department of Special Piano, an accompanist, Hvorostovsky Siberian State Academy of Arts