Author : Benedict Taylor
Release : 2023-11-30
Genre : Music
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Hensel: String Quartet in E flat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hensel: String Quartet in E flat write by Benedict Taylor. This book was released on 2023-11-30. Hensel: String Quartet in E flat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.