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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote numerous songs, piano compositions, cantatas, and other musical works, which were not published in her lifetime. The illustration on this hand-written manuscript…
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1841
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Charles-Valentin Alkan was the first composer to incorporate Jewish melodies in art music. His “Ancienne melodie de la synagogue,” a prelude for solo piano or organ, was published in 1847, along with…
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Charles-Valentin Alkan
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1844