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Music 271 2/16/07II: The emerging role of women composers in the 19th Century: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847): All central European Romantic composers born within a decade of each other• Composed over 400 compositions at best guess• Primarily songs and piano works, as well as choral and other orchestral music• Organized and presided over concerts in Berlin (began in 1831)• Was principal pianist and conductor at these concerts (Sunday afternoons) Mendelssohns were wealthiest Jewish family in Berlin Mendelssohns owned a concert hall on their estate that sat 100 people• Her husband (Wilhelm Hensel) encouraged her to publish her own musicIII: Louis Moreau Gottschalk:• Born 1829• Wrote primarily keyboard character pieces• Lived in New Orleans (spoke French and Spanish)• Began to play piano at age 3, and sent to study music in Paris at 13 and was performing in public by 16• Returned to New York in 1856Early works showed the influence of Chopin, but later works showed influe
