Hensel

String Quartet in E flat

Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh)

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English

Cambridge University Press
30 November 2023

Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks

The String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth century. Composed at a turning point in her life (as Hensel was not only grappling with her own creative voice but also coming to terms with her identity as a married woman, and the role her family expected of her), the quartet is significant in showing a woman composing in a genre that was then almost exclusively the domain of male artists. Benedict Taylor's illuminating book situates itself within developing scholarly discourse on the music of women composers, going beyond apologetics – or condemnation of those who hindered their development – to examine the strength and qualities of the music and how it responded to the most progressive works of the period.

By: Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009074896
ISBN 10: 100907489X
Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Genesis and private reception; 4. First movement: Adagio ma non troppo; 5. Second movement: Allegretto; 6. Third movement: Romanza; 7. Finale: Allegro molto vivace; 8. Responding to the Quartet.

Benedict Taylor is Reader at the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh. Publications include Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (2011), The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (2016), and Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann (2022).