Hensel: String Quartet in E flat (New Cambridge Music Handbooks) - Softcover

Taylor, Benedict

Softcover

ISBN 10: 100907489X ISBN 13: 9781009074896

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Benedict Taylor is Reader at the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh. Publications include Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (2011), The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (2016), and Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann (2022).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 100907489X
• ISBN 13: 9781009074896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134