Fanny & Wilhelm Hensel: Szenen einer Ehe

Featuring

Jenifer Lary
Chiaki Kotobuki
Jerilyn Chou
David Jagodic
Soobin Kim
Caroline Jestaedt

Johannes Czernin
Martin Buchmann
Matthias Hoffmann
Alfredo Ovalles
Darya Volkova
Daniela Dawn Fietzek
Martina Fender
Ana Marković
Yen-Ling Liu
Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir
Fiona Pollak
Misaki Morino
Sawako Yamada-Blankenship
Fanny Hensel

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Fanny Hensel's 'Reise-Album Deutschland-Italien' was intended as a 'second diary' for personal remembrance, with external titles and vignettes kept private to avoid revealing too much personal information.

Recording & Production

The piano version of 'Hero und Leander' on this album is its first recording, released in 2015 for Fanny Hensel's 210th birthday.

Composition History

The project 'Raum für Fanny Hensel' (Space for Fanny Hensel) was the largest gender project at the mdw (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) since the establishment of its Coordination Office for Women's Advancement and Gender Studies.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The 'Reise-Album Deutschland-Italien' is not a literal documentation of Fanny and Wilhelm Hensel's journey but an 'imaginary place of remembrance' arranged as they wished to recall and recount it at home.

Historical Context

Fanny Hensel's great-aunt, Fanny von Arnstein, is considered the founding mother of the Vienna Society of Friends of Music, which established a conservatory that became the mdw (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna).

Album & Artwork

The album cover features a portrait of Fanny Hensel from 1842 by Moritz Daniel Oppenheimer.

Composition History

Fanny Hensel's dramatic scene 'Hero und Leander' was composed in three days as a Christmas gift for a family friend, with Wilhelm Hensel writing the text based on a ballad by Friedrich Schiller.