In Fanny Hensel’s oeuvre, which encompasses more than 450 works, songs play a central role. They form the largest group of works and occupied her throughout her life as a composer: from the fourteen-year-old’s first entry in a composite manuscript to her last work, written one day before her sudden death in May 1847. Together with the renowned lied singer Juliane Banse, G. Henle Publishers has selected 24 songs. Alongside op. 1 and 7, which were published during Hensel’s lifetime with such well-known songs as “Gondellied” and “Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass?”, our selection also includes rarely heard works and songs from all creative phases that have hitherto not appeared in print. In addition to autographs, the Urtext edition also consulted contemporary copies and first editions. The edition enjoyed the scholarly support of American Hensel specialist Stephen Rodgers, who also contributed the preface to the edition.
Original keys for high voice
Annette Oppermann (Editor)
Stephen Rodgers (Preface)
Juliane Banse (Introduction)
Content:
1. Six Songs op. 1
Schwanenlied (Heinrich Heine) HU 358
Wanderlied (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) HU 317
Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass? (Heinrich Heine) HU 312
Maienlied (Joseph von Eichendorff) HU 387
Morgenständchen (Joseph von Eichendorff) HU 388
Gondellied (Emanuel Geibel) HU 377
Six Songs op. 7
Nachtwanderer (Joseph von Eichendorff) HU 397
Erwin (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) HU 450
Frühling (Joseph von Eichendorff) HU 464
Du bist die Ruh (Friedrich Rückert) HU 343
Bitte (Nikolaus Lenau) HU 440
Dein ist mein Herz (Nikolaus Lenau) HU 434
Im Herbste (Ludwig Uhland) HU 54
Schlaflied (Ludwig Tieck) HU 58
An einen Liebenden im Frühling (Ludwig Tieck) HU 121
Harfners Lied (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) HU 162
Der Frühlingsabend (Johann Heinrich Voß) HU 185
Die Sommernacht (Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock) HU 209
Wenn ich mir in stiller Seele (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) HU 215
Gegenwart (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) HU 270
Wenn der Frühling kommt (Heinrich Heine) HU 286
Ach, die Augen sind es wieder (Heinrich Heine) HU 325
Fichtenbaum und Palme (Heinrich Heine) HU 328
Das Meer erglänzte weit hinaus (Heinrich Heine) HU 335
