Sabine Kemna

Larissa Kofman was born in 1974 in Kazan/USSR. She lives and works in Israel as a composer and educator. Her compositions are characterized by the combination of classical tonality and atonal elements, modern harmony, as well as theatricality and vivid imagery.

The works of Larissa Kofman have been performed by the Camerata-Kassel Orchestra and the Kassel Youth Symphony Orchestra. On commission from the State Theatre Kassel, she wrote the prologue to Hans Krása’s children’s opera Brundibar for the 17th Theater-Youth-Orchestra Project.

Her work Pray for Ukraine was written in 2022: “What is happening around us is monstrous and inhuman,” writes the composer. “When the war began, I felt numb, I was speechless. Only the sounds remained. I put them together to express my pain and sorrow and to call on everyone: Pray for Ukraine, for its children, for its freedom.”

It will be performed on May 18 in Kassel at the Evangelical Church Rothenditmold by the Camerata-Kassel Orchestra.

220th birthday of Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy 2025

In 2025 we celebrate the 220th birthday of Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Her music is celebrated worldwide and we have dedicated a website to her. Look forward to many wonderful concerts and events and play her music to celebrate this great composer. You can browse through the works at Furore here…

Discover inspiring sheet music, captivating books, and compelling CDs that honor the creative legacy of women in music. Whether as a gift for your loved ones or for yourself, let the diversity and depth of these works inspire you! Enjoy browsing our webshop and happy gifting!

And here are 10 tips featuring our bestsellers:

1. for piano: pian e forte
2. For all singers: Aria. Arias from opera and oratorio
3. For all flutists: Anna Bon di Venezia: Sonatas for Flute
4. For all violinists: Sonatas by the court composer of Louis XIV
5. For all organists: for Mascha
6. CDs from Furore Verlag: Fanny Hensel, The Year – 12 Character Pieces
7. For duets: Fanny Hensel
8. For piano trios: Mel Bonis Soir et Matin
9. For string trios: Ethel Smyth: String Trio Op. 6
10. The special gift

The 119th birthday of Fanny Hensel will be celebrated on 14.11.2024!
Born on November 14, 1805 in Hamburg, Fanny Hensel grew up as the granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and eldest child of the banker Abraham Mendelssohn and his wife Lea in a well-to-do and educated Berlin family. At the age of 12, she was already playing the 24 preludes from the first part of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier by heart for her father.
1831 was an important year in her career as a composer:
She composes three cantatas Lobgesang, Hiob and the Cantata nach Aufhören der Cholera in Berlin (oratorio based on images from the Bible). Until her death, she continued to direct the so-called “Sonntagsmusiken” as an important cultural institution in Berlin’s musical life. Among the guests are Liszt and the Schumann couple, along with many other famous musicians. Fanny founds and conducts a choir as part of the “Sonntagsmusiken” and works as a composer, conductor, pianist and organizer.

Maria Jaell composed her 20-minute Concerto pour violoncelle (for violoncello and orchestra) in 1882, dedicating it to Jules Delsart, one of the most famous French cellists of her time.
In the decade of its composition, the work enjoyed considerable popularity and was also performed by the Belgian cellist Adolphe Fischer at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. At the beginning of the 20th century, however, it increasingly fell into oblivion and was only recently resurrected from its from its more than 100-year slumber. The manuscript has more than 400 pages, most of which contain contradictory versions of the work in disorganised form. The 2nd movement ‘Lento’ has only survived in rudimentary form. Julian Riem has now reconstructed and arranged the ‘Lento’ for orchestra on the basis of the manuscript and this edition extracts the most coherent and stringent version of the concerto possible from the entirety of the sources.

“The concert feels fresh and captivating, predominantly warm and enthusiastic, but also contemplative and profound. The glowing intensity, the engaging, grand melodic arcs, as well as the cross-sectional kinship and development of the material make the work as a whole a powerful, significant achievement. The instrumentation is rooted in the romantic tradition of …

A new book about Vivienne Olive and her music

Vivienne Olive has been composing since she first sat at the piano at the age of seven. Her oeuvre is incredibly diverse, characterized by different influences and always inviting discovery.
According to Olive herself, her catalogue of works includes serious, often serial compositions for soloists, small ensembles and large-scale orchestral apparatuses and choirs.
Olive devotes extensive studies and analyses to these before completion, sometimes with detailed proportion plans. Olive also frequently composes spontaneous light music, such as
the lively Bush Gin Rag.

New at Furore: Vivienne Olive: An Introduction to her Music
With contributions by Charlotte Cubitt, Barbara Gabler, Stefan Grasse, Theresa Henkel, Mary Ellen Kitchens, Arno Leicht, Vivienne Olive, Matthias Stubenvoll, Janosch Umbreit
and Uta Walther.
ISBN 978927327634

Frankfurt Book Fair, Cello Academy in Rutesheim, 220 years of Fanny Hensel 2025 and lots of news in our October newsletter.

Book Fair in Frankfurt
The 76th Frankfurt Book Fair opens its doors from October 16 to 20, 2024. The publishers Merseburger, Furore and Pan will be exhibiting in Hall 3.1 Stand D 99. This year, you can look forward to a particularly large number of stages, authors, stars and experts from the publishing and media world – at the heart of the industry, at the world’s largest book fair.