Das Jahr
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Das Jahr (The Year) is a collection of 12 pieces written by Fanny Mendelssohn. It was first published in 1989. Each piece depicts a month of the year.
The music was written on coloured sheets of paper, and illustrated by her husband Wilhelm Hensel, a painter. Each piece was also accompanied by a short poem.
In a letter from Rome, Fanny Mendelssohn described the process behind composing Das Jahr:
"I have been composing a good deal lately, and have called my piano pieces after the names of my favourite haunts, partly because they really came into my mind at these spots, partly because our pleasant excursions were in my mind while I was writing them. They will form a delightful souvenir, a kind of second diary. But do not imagine that I give these names when playing them in society, they are for home use entirely."[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Citron, Marcia J. The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn.
