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On December 20 and 21, 2023 at 8:15 pm, the work “Hero and Leander” by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, will be performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Klaus Mäkelä at Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sporanist Chen Reiss will interpret the “dramatic scene” “Hero and Leander” by Fanny Hensel, a composer whose music is now posthumously emerging from the shadow of her famous brother Felix Mendelssohn. In fact, this will be the first time that the Concertgebouw Orchestra has performed one of her works; attention for her opulent compositional style is therefore long overdue. “We wanted to create a composition with the works of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn,” says Klaus Mäkelä.
Another concert date is on Friday, December 22 at 7 p.m. in the Kölner Philharmonie in Cologne.

Further information & tickets can be found on the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s website.

Photo: Klaus Mäkelä & Concertgebouw Orchestra, © Marco Borggreve

Today we commemorate a remarkable woman in music history – Fanny Hensel, born on November 14. She was a 19th century German composer and pianist whose talent and influence were often overshadowed by her famous brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Fanny Hensel was born into a family in which music played an important role. With an incredible talent and passion for music, she began composing at an early age. Although social norms often denied women access to the professional music world, Fanny continued her artistic journey and created an impressive collection of piano pieces, songs and chamber music.

Fanny Hensel’s influence extends far beyond her time, and today her works are performed worldwide.

On Fanny Hensel’s birthday, we celebrate her pioneering spirit as a woman in the 19th century music world. Happy birthday, Fanny Hensel!

For more information, please visit our website.

From November 10 to 12, 2023, the 2nd Women Composers’ Meeting took place in Nuremberg, which focused on the creativity and diversity of outstanding women composers from all over the world. Furore Verlag was represented with a presentation, which offered the opportunity to exchange ideas directly with the female composers.
The meeting, organized by Prof. Vivienne Olive and the Archiv Frau und Musik, provided a deep insight into the contemporary music scene. The works of talented female composers took center stage. Many of these works have found a permanent place in Furore Verlag’s repertoire.
We look back on an impressive event that not only highlighted the importance and diversity of contemporary music, but also promoted collaboration and exchange between female artists. Furore Verlag would like to thank all participants, sponsors and organizers. The passionate atmosphere and the commitment of all those present made this event an inspiring encounter.

We warmly invite you to our open day!

On Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. we will be holding an open day in our warehouse/concert hall
at Philippistrasse 17, 34127 Kassel
with readings, music and plenty of time to browse.

The project “Diabelli Recomposed: 50 Diabelli Waltz Variations by contemporary female composers worldwide” is the result of a very exciting three-year collaboration. Yesterday evening, on November 5, 2023, the 50-fold premiere of the “Diabelli Recomposed” project was performed and celebrated at the Staatstheater Braunschweig.

10 pianists from Prof. Ewa Kupiec’s class at the Hanover University of Music performed the works: We would like to thank Lioba Schmidt, Louisa Emilia Schneider, Oleksandra Kiktenko, Tsuzumi Namikawa, Harune Yoshida, Clara Strobel, Lal Karaalioglu, Greta Zamyckaja, Yue Chen and Zhu Zhuang, whose unique musical interpretations were enthusiastically received by the audience. The “Diabelli Recomposed” project was initiated by Claudia Bigos, a musicologist from Braunschweig. Her great commitment and visionary initiative laid the foundations for this impressive project.

The works of 50 female composers from all over the world, each of whom put Diabelli’s waltz variations in a new light in an original way, are all characterized by their diversity and uniqueness. It is an inspiring, exciting journey through the world of music, involving women from 22 nations and uniting several generations at the same time. Almost exactly 200 years after the first publication of Diabelli’s waltz variation, this concert and the sheet music edition completed the …

200 years ago Anton Diabelli asked 50 composers to each write a variation on a waltz theme he had written – not a single women composer was among the composers. In 1924, the anthology entitled “50 Variations by the Most Excellent Composers and Virtuosos of Vienna” was published by the music publisher Cappi & Diabelli.
200 years later, on 05.11.2023, an extraordinary musical event will take place in the Staatstheater Braunschweig: The 50th premiere of waltz variations for solo piano on the same waltz theme by Diabelli. What makes this event particularly remarkable is that this time the variations are exclusively by 50 talented women composers from 22 different countries. The project was initiated by musicologist Claudia Bigos from Braunschweig and is under the patronage of General Director Dagmar Schlingmann.
For the performance 10 students from the piano class of Prof. Ewa Kupiec from the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts (HMTMH) were selected. More infos

The sheet music edition is published by Furore Verlag.

Marie Awadis Armenia/Lebanon/Germany
Emanuela Ballio Italy
Marina Baranova Ukraine/Germany
Victoria Bond USA
Carmen Maria Cârneci Romania
Daria Cheikh-Sarraf Germany/Poland/Iran
Michaela Dietl Germany
Violeta Dinescu Romania/Germany
Asia Dojnikowski Poland
Siegrid Ernst Germany
Carlotta Ferrari Italy
Susanne Hardt Germany
Jessi Harvey USA
Dorothea Hofmann Germany
Sophia Jani Germany
Justina Jaruševičiūtė …