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Her father Abraham was a successful banker, and her mother Lea was an accomplished. She was born in 1805 to a wealthy Jewish family in Hamburg.

Although her career was largely overshadowed by her younger brother Felix, she was a prolific composer of over 450 works. Note that this list is purely chronological, and also includes a substantial number of composers, especially those born after 1860, whose works cannot be conveniently classified as " Romantic". Fanny Mendelssohn was a German pianist and composer from the Romantic period. The New German School-primarily Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner-promoted progressive ideas, in opposition to more conservative composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. Many composers began to channel nationalistic themes, such as Mikhail Glinka, The Five and Belyayev circle in Russia Frédéric Chopin in Poland Carl Maria von Weber and Heinrich Marschner in Germany Edvard Grieg in Norway Jean Sibelius in Finland Giuseppe Verdi in Italy Carl Nielsen in Denmark Isaac Albéniz in Spain Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Elgar in England Mykola Lysenko in Ukraine and Bedřich Smetana and Antonín Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic.Ī European-wide debate took place, particularly in Germany, on what the ideal course of music was, following Beethoven's death. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from the preceding Classical era. Due to her familys reservations, and to social conventions of the time about the roles of women, six of her songs were published under her brothers name. Her younger brother was composer Felix Mendelssohn. The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (14 November 1805 ) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era.