Fanny Mendelssohn - Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11

[@Dylonely42]

She is way too underrated. This is utterly marvelous.

[@edwardmontoya50]

I played this trio at the Manhattan School of Music but I scored it for bassoon oboe and piano. It was for my graduate recital and I played only music by women from every period. Elisabeth Jacquet for baroque, Franny for classical, Clara Schumann for Romantic and Amy Beach and Ken Taffe Zwillich for 20th century. So good.

[@geigenatelierbrusch469]

A fantastic work. You can easily hear from where Felix got some inspiration.

[@edwardmontoya50]

Franny certainly inspired him with her breathtaking piano skills. She was lucky she lived in a musical household that openly supported her aspirations. Not many women were so lucky. Franny and Clara were the few lucky women to get their music recognized.

[@sethmcgaw6712]

This may be a slightly controversial viewpoint, but I don't care because I've been an avid classical listener for 30 years, and the two composers whose music I feel strongest about, out of all of the "classical" composers I listen to, are Fanny and Johannes Brahms.... . and every time I come back to this piece I keep hearing snippets of melodies from Brahms' chamber music. I literally mean that there are some exact replicas in Brahms' oeuvre of little bits from this work. And when you think about it, their particular 'language' is eerily similar in many ways. I really don't think I'm stretching too far when I say that I've been long convinced that Brahms knew her music (and in the case of this piece in particular, I believe he literally borrowed ideas) - obviously there's nothing in the official historical record which I've seen to date indicating that he ever knew and learned from her work... but think about the historically-certifiable fact that the 2 closest (non-romantic) relationships in Clara Schumann's life were ..... yep, those two. Do you think it UNlikely that she would have played some Fanny for him? Come on. I find it surprising that I haven't yet read this conjecture elsewhere.

[@drc4168]

Great minds think alike!!! It's musicology's most gate kept secret. Fanny's influence on Johannes.

[@user-pq6ij1iv5f]

FANNY MENDELSSOHN FOR EVER AND EVER!!!!!!!!!

[@edwardmontoya50]

I stan Franny Mendelssohn.

[@yicantong2299]

这么优秀的作品值得被更多人了解喜爱 It deserves more attention and beloved

[@8byuhfrance571]

So much emotion at the start especially, really draws you in

[@Makusa-qc2qd]

This is incredible! It's easy to imagine this fully orchestrated as a piano concerto, especially that first movement. Thanks for posting this.

[@yicantong2299]

Second time listening . My god, this piece was so underrated! The final was definitely a killer! Music so delicate and full of emotions

[@canman5060]

I can hear Brahms in this work. Fanny is way ahead of her time.

[@umanathshetty7232]

I can hear her brother's violin Concerto

[@stringswithdrsulbaran]

Gosh this is stunning. Every violist secretly wishes they were a cellist, and this piece just makes me want to play cello that much more!

[@JuanPena-kq8bk]

Esta preciosa esa melodia, Preciosa. Hace que uno se cienta en un paraíso y se olvide de toda la maldad de los gobiernos. Que viva la musica.

[@marcsmith7789]

An impressive, passionate, and beautiful work. Really a joy to listen to. I want to hear this played on our local classical radio!

[@mohammedpasha1715]

The second movement is especially good.

[@heckelphon]

... And still we're coming and discovering this excellent work! Just heard it by chance on Bayerischer Rundfunk and thought I must search it out and hear it again.

[@aattura1541]

Absolutely beautiful. Strong, stunning.

[@tomasaviles3322]

Timeless.

[@felixdevilliers1]

Easily as good as the Trios composed by Schumann, Chopin and her brother. I see it has been nearly 8000 times. Someone is enjoying it

[@felixdevilliers1]

@tony lip - I agree, but no one can match Fanny or Schumann or Clara either, They are all beyond comparison, each one negates all the others.

[@erika6651]

@tony lip Not so in the chamber music department. His cello sonata is stunning, but his trio isn't.

[@edwardmontoya50]

Franny and Clara were not only amazing composers but they were definitely superior pianists compared to their male relatives. I adore both of their music and performed them in NYC when I was in grad school. I don't know but a lot of female composers write more beautifully than most men, if that makes any sense. There is something about not being ashamed to be unabashedly gorgeous in their music technique.

[@felixdevilliers1]

@@edwardmontoya50 - It does not matter whether a composer is male or female, what matters is the quality of the music they compèose. Women have been put at a disadvantage for centuries. Have you read the furious letter s Fanny got from her father insisting that her place was in the home and not in a career and Felix agreed.. Without this pressure she would have achieved more than she did.

[@proserpinehymn]

@@edwardmontoya50 It's a shallow assessment to claim that 'women write more beautifully' on the whole. It's a disservice to everyone to say that; the composers and the listeners. Women don't need to be stereotyped as 'beautiful' or 'graceful' in manner, especially when it comes to creative expression. That kind of reductivism is what confined many women like Fanny Mendelssohn to the private sphere, unable to compose or publish.

[@1minnows]

This is really quite good, fluid and expressive.

[@piargno]

Badass piece!

[@felixdevilliers1]

if you can't hear the extraordinary beauty of this music you must be a badass yourself

[@viviantompkins7925]

@@felixdevilliers1 I think this person is using that term in a complimentary way :) Regardless of our choice of adjectives, we can all agree that Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was an incredible composer

[@felixdevilliers1]

@@viviantompkins7925 - I certainly hope so. this work is extraordinary as is her String Quartet. Her musical career had been repressed by her father and brother because they thought a woman's place was in the home.. It took quite long for her to rebel and tell her brother she was going to publish whether he liked it or not. That was when she composed this Trio, but then unfortunately died. How much more she could have done?. While composing she follows her impulses more than her brother. Compare her lovely Notturno in G minor to her brother's SWW. Here in Verona I gave a talk on Fanny and Clara Schumann to a packed hall and played some of their pieces. It went well and at the end a little group of women came up to me and said they had felt the presence of the two women in the hall..

[@geigenatelierbrusch469]

@@felixdevilliers1 Dear Felix. I read Your interesting comments on this trio. Apparently You also speak italian and You are a fine pianist yourself. May I ask You in which book(s) You found Your informations on Fanny? Thankyou for Your answer, that you may send directly to me: [e-mail] Thankyou!

[@pianosbloxworld4460]

Honestly, this sounds like a 19th century hood classic.

[@OuwenH101]

Can I just say, the Mendelssohns really like fast first movements

[@cph101dev]

Oh my! It’s a lot faster than I thought 😅

[@irisscialom4067]

The very first theme looks a bit like Felix's violin concerto in e

[@mariol.s.barbosa3089]

Does anyone know the make of the piano used here? Sounds like a German piano, but I am curious! This is a wonderful Trio.

[@carstenaltvater]

Sounds like a Bechstein or a Blüthner. As Fanny lived in Berlin this would the number one choice, Bechstein comes from Berlin, Blüthner from Leipzig as in Fannys lifetime.

[@alexhwang1487]

6:17

[@suelamullaj7068]

Per me ci ha messo le mani il fratello!

[@eliasmendes6841]

12:50

[@nicholasfox966]

Fucking masterpiece.

[@aboelsaudeldessuky4844]

superb..awesome..who are the three players?

[@user-ef3eu7vc7c]

추앙하고픈 파니

[@gabe74]

L song+ YB better+ Fanny who??

[@charlesrobertdarwin3528]

12:47

[@Dylonely42]

I thought you were death.