Editing Fanny Mendelssohn (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Fannyhenselgrave.jpg|thumb|upright|200px|Grave of Fanny Hensel in Berlin]]
From the 1980s onwards there has been renewed interest in Mendelssohn and her works. In November 2017, the Mendelssohn-Haus museum in [[Leipzig]] inaugurated a permanent exhibit dedicated to her.{{sfn|Anon.|2023}} The [[Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum]], which is dedicated to the lives and work of the two siblings, opened on 29 May 2018 in Hamburg.{{sfn|KomponistenQuartier|n.d.}}

[[Minor planet]] {{ill|9331 Fannyhensel|fr|(9331) Fannyhensel}} is named after her.{{sfn|Schmadel|2006|page=45}}

On 14 November 2021, [[Google]] commemorated Fanny Hensel's 216th birthday with a [[Google Doodle]] in North America, Iceland, Germany, Greece, Ukraine, Israel, Armenia, Australia and New Zealand.{{sfn|Google|2021}}

===Music===
Six months before his death, Felix attempted to ensure that his sister received the recognition that had been withheld throughout much of her life. He collected many of her works intending to release them to the public through his publisher, [[Breitkopf & Härtel]]. In 1850, the publisher began to distribute Fanny Mendelssohn's unreleased works, starting with ''Vier Lieder'' Op. 8.{{sfn|Todd|2010|p=351}} Commencing in the late 1980s, Fanny Mendelssohn's music has become better known, thanks to concert performances and new recordings.{{sfn|March|Greenfield|Layton|Czajkowski|1999|pp=858–859}} Her ''Easter Sonata'' for piano, formerly attributed to Felix, was premiered in her name by Andrea Lam on 12 September 2012.{{sfn|CVNC Online Arts Journal|2012}}

===Writings===
Fanny Mendelssohn published no writings during her lifetime. Selected letters and journal entries were published during the 19th century, notably by Sebastian Hensel in his book on the Mendelssohn family. Her collected letters to Felix, edited by [[Marcia Citron]], were published in 1987.{{sfn|Hensel, S.|1884}}{{sfn|Mace Christian|2018|loc=Bibliography}}{{sfn|Mendelssohn (Hensel)|1987}}

===Biographical and musicological studies===
During the 19th century Fanny mainly figured as a bystander in biographies and studies of her brother Felix; typically she was a representative of a supposed 'feminizing' influence that sapped his artistry.{{sfn|Kimber|2004|pp=48–49}} In the 20th century the conventional narrative switched to presenting Felix as disapproving of his sister's musical activities and seeking to contain them, whilst the 'feminizing' accusation against Fanny evaporated.{{sfn|Kimber|2004|pp=49–50}} From the 1980s onwards Fanny Mendelssohn has been the subject of many academic books and articles.{{sfn|Stokes|2019|loc=''passim''}}{{sfn|Mace Christian|2018|loc=Bibliography}} Kimber opines that "The tale of Fanny, the 'suppressed' composer, has so readily found a place in the biographies of the siblings because of its resemblance to prevailing models for the life of a 'Great Composer' ... based in Romantic ideology about male artists. ... Hensel fits neatly into a traditional narrative of the suffering artistic genius ... with a modern twist: the feminine gender of its main character. Thus two characters [Felix and Fanny] are forced to bear the weight of two centuries of gender ideology."{{sfn|Kimber|2004|p=52}}

A catalogue of the works of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel has been prepared by Renate Hellwig-Unruh in 2000, according to which each work may be referred to by its "H-U number".{{sfn|Hellwig-Unruh|2000}}

[[Sheila Hayman]], the great-great-great-granddaughter of Fanny Mendelssohn, released a 97-minute documentary ''Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn'' in 2023.{{sfn|Bradshaw|2023}}