An Analysis and Interpretation of Fanny Hensel’s Piano Work《Das Jahr》

• Main Authors: Ting-O Chou, 周廷娥
• Other Authors: Shu-Chuan Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y8hacm

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 音樂系碩士在職專班音樂專業師資教育組 === 101 === The 19th-century woman composer, Fanny Hensel, geb. Mendelssohn (1805-1847) was born in Hamburg, Germany. She was the elder sister of the famous composer, Felix Mendelssohn. Her output in music included many piano, vocal and chamber music, but these works were rarely being published during her life time. The main focus of this paper is to study Fanny Hensel’s piano cycle “Das Jahr” . The cycle comprised twelve pieces each named after a month of a year and in this cycle Fanny combined poetry and illustration perfectly into a music diary. There are four chapters in the thesis. Chapter One is a discussion of related reference and literature. Chapter Two portrays Fanny’s biographical information. Chapter three explores the historical background of the pieces and compositional techniques. Chapter Four contains the analysis and interpretation of the music. The last chapter is a brief conclusion of the thesis.