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Because you've played enough Chopin already
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Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
Matt Baume 🏳️🌈
Fascinating!
And highlights why original source material research is important.
THIS IS WILD
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A quick post on Fanny Mendelssohn, giving a signal boost to @henselpushers.bsky.social .
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Dancerina MPH, CIC, CPH
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!
"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!
Jordan Carmalt Stokes
henselpushers
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.
Gary McGath
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.
Caroline Gonda (she/her)
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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...
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...
henselpushers.org
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.
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
henselpushers
henselpushers.org
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...
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...
Fanny Mendelssohn, also known by her married name Fanny Hensel, was a sister of the 19th-century composer Felix Mendelssohn. While she wasn’t nearly as famous as her brother, she was an excel…
