"Making Abraham (and later Felix) the “bad guy” in the story of Fanny’s life does an injustice to the complex nature of existing with intersectionally marginalized identities in an oppressive society."
@titachico.bsky.social @drbibliomane.bsky.social this blogpost made me think of you both.
Have you ever heard this quote from a letter that Fanny’s father sent her as a teenager?
“Music will perhaps become [Felix’s] profession, whilst for you it can and must only be an ornament, never the root of your being and doing.”
Turns out that quote is WRONG and has been for 150 years!
henselpushers
Everyone’s slander of Abraham Mendelssohn-Bartholdy has driven me to writing on my blog and I’ll never forgive any of you for it.
Among people with a passing familiarity with Fanny Hensel, if they know one fact about her father Abraham, it is that he forbade his daughter from pursuing a career in music, telling her that while Fe...
