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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    07 December 2023
    30 November 2023
    ISBN:
    9781009076159
    9781316513842
    9781009074896
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009076159
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.31kg, 134 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.25kg, 134 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Music, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Music
    Series:
    New Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    Subjects:
    Music, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Music
    Series:
    New Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    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.

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