Google has chosen to mark the birthday of Fanny Mendelssohn Hansel.
The company dedicated a doodle to the character of the German composer and pianist, of Jewish descent, who was also the sister of Felix Mendelssohn and the granddaughter of the Jewish philosopher Moshe Mendelssohn and composed hundreds of works in her life.
She was born into a family with pedigree: her father, Avraham, was the son of Moshe Mendelssohn, the Jewish philosopher and her mother Leah nee Solomon, was the granddaughter of the entrepreneur Daniel Itzig and was a musician, who even gave her daughter the first piano lessons. Fanny was revealed to be a prodigy, alongside her brother Felix, and already at the age of 13 she played orally all 24 pieces of the prelude from Bach's "Comparative Piano". At a very young age she began to compose music. She married in 1829 the painter Wilhelm Hansel, who supported her career as a composer, given the fact that few women enjoyed it at the time.
Her debut was in 1838 when she played her brother's work "Piano Concerto No. 1" and in 1846 began receiving invitations from publishers. The night of the first Walforgis. "Her brother, who was broken from her death, composed a piece in her memory - the string quartet in B minor" Opus 80 ", a piece full of turbulent emotions and sadness. He died less than six months after her death, also for the same reason. Her husband stopped painting after her death.
